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Cornelis van Eesteren (4 July 1897 – 21 February 1988) was a prominent Dutch architect and urban planner who was born in Alblasserdam and died in Amsterdam. He worked for the Town Planning department of Amsterdam (1929–1959) and was the chairman of the CIAM (1930–1947). [1] He contributed to the De Stijl movement, with its founder Theo ...
Since Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" in 2009, every video that has reached the top of the "most-viewed YouTube videos" list has been a music video. In November 2005, a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian football player Ronaldinho became the first video to reach 1,000,000 views. [1] The billion-view mark was first passed by Gangnam Style in ...
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Very little is known about van der Voort's early life. He was likely born around 1576 in Antwerp in the Habsburg Netherlands as the son of Pieter van der Voort, a cloth weaver by trade. The family van der Voort moved to the Northern Netherlands in 1585, likely fleeing Antwerp because they were Calvinists.
Corneille – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (3 July 1922 – 5 September 2010), better known under his pseudonym Corneille, was a Dutch artist. [1] Corneille was born in Liège, Belgium, although his parents were Dutch and moved back to the Netherlands when he was 12. [2] He studied art at the Academy of Art in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.
Son Dirck Jacobsz portrayed his parents as Jacob Cornelisz.Painting a Portrait of His Wife Anna. Little is known about Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen's life. Historians rely mostly on the biographical sketch of him written by Karel van Mander, the archives of Amsterdam, and the archives of Egmond Abbey, a Benedictine monastery that commissioned works by him.
According to Karel van Mander, who claimed he lived 1493–1544, he was the best among his painter-brothers, as son and pupil of his father, the painter Cornelis Engelbrechtsz. He won commissions from the Leiden council members as well as the clergy, specifically Engelendaal Abbey in Leiderdorp .