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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Antwerp"”.
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Jan Sanders van Hemessen and Antwerp Painting before Bruegel
This dissertation examines sixteenth-century Antwerp art in socio-historical context through the career of Jan Sanders van Hemessen (active by 1524–died after 1556), one of the most successful painters in Antwerp at a time when the port city was an international center for both art and commerce. …
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Law, Commerce, and the Rise of New Imagery in Antwerp, 1500-1600
… and legal history in sixteenth century Antwerp explain this painting's appearance and significance. In the beginning of the sixteenth century, Antwerp became a locus of unprecedented artistic production caused by the dramatic growth of its mercantile population, its highly organized …
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General Average and the York-Antwerp Rules: The historical quest for international conformity, the divisive effect of more recent amendments to the Rules and recommendations with regard to the way forward to regain more widespread acceptance of the Rules in today's global maritime industry
… import led to the adoption of the York-Antwerp Rules by the maritime community as a tool for achieving uniformity. The York-Antwerp Rules have been amended periodically over the course of more than a century with the object of achieving greater uniformity in the law of general average …
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Embedding the personal: the construction of a 'fashion autobiography' as a museum exhibition, informed by innovative practice at ModeMuseum, Antwerp
… 1 concludes with an introduction to ModeMuseum, Antwerp, which is the primary location for my research. Part 2 details the identification, description and definition of a repertoire of presentation modes, classified and distinguished as innovative through comparative analysis of over 100 …
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La visione delle città delle Fiandre negli scrittori fiamminghi di lingua francese (1881-1922)
… are the main cities of Flanders: Bruges, Antwerp, Ghent, Brussels, Leuven and Furnes. Our attention is focused on the cities of Bruges and Antwerp above all, because of their main presence in the Belgian literature in authors like Georges Rodenbach and Georges Eekhoud. They dedicated their …
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Curiosity and Collection in the Constcamer Paintings of Frans II Francken (1581-1642)
… its discursive manifestation in posticonoclastic Antwerp. A morally fraught desire associated with Eve and the Fall, curiosity also drives the collector’s acquisition of knowledge and objects; “curiosity” shares its Latin derivation of <em>cura</em>, care, with the term “curator”, whose modern …
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Months: A Perspective
In the year 1565, Antwerp merchant Nicolaes Jongelinck commissioned Pieter Bruegel the Elder to paint a series of paintings, The Months, for his suburban villa. Unfortunately, Jongelinck lost possession of the series of paintings and the works were passed from collection to collection. In passing …
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Faecal Sediments as Bio-Archives: The Fish Event Horizon in the Low Countries
… of this thesis for the cities of Aalst (n = 16), Antwerp (n = 3), Brugge (n = 2), Delft (n = 5), Dendermonde (n = 1), Leiden (n = 19), and Mechelen (n = 1) (AD 1000 – 1700). Archaeological fish remains are notoriously challenging to collect and identify, which can hinder ichthyological …
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Les citoyens et le fédéralisme. Perceptions et préférences fédérales en Belgique et au Canada
… fields: Liège in French-speaking Belgium, Antwerp in Dutch-speaking Belgium, Kingston in English-Canada and Montréal in Québec. To do so, the thesis is divided in three parts. The first part puts forward the general and the methodological framework of the research. Thus, chapter 1 presents …
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Renaissance Receptions of Ovid's <i>Tristia</i>
… (1549, Basel), and Hecules Ciofanus (1581, Antwerp) and analyzes their various contexts, styles, and approaches to the text. The third chapter shows the commentators at work, presenting a more focused look at how these commentators apply their differing methods to the same selection of the …
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Fashion, Art and the Early Modern Court, Frans Pourbus the Younger (1569 - 1622)
… trajectory, beginning in the mercantile hub of Antwerp and traversing employment at the courts of Brussels, Mantua, and Paris, traces the role of the portraitist in mediating the social capital of his clients by capturing their manner of dress in a highly detailed way that evoked veracity. The …
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A proposed project risk management framework in the information technology environment
Information Technology (IT) projects that resulted from the accelerated technological pace of change, will enable a path of growth and long term return on investment (ROI) for organisations. However, embarking on such large scale investments leave little opportunity to turn back, and sound project …
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Manoeuvreergedrag van containerschepen in slibrijke vaarwateren Manoeuvring Behaviour of Container Vessels in Muddy Navigation Areas
… Hydraulics Research – Ghent University in Antwerp. During this program the ship’s behaviour has been measured above and in contact with a series of artificial mud layers. Based on the measurements a mathematical model was built which allows to simulate the manoeuvring behaviour for each …
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Managing vessel arrival uncertainty in container terminals: a machine learning approach
… and one of the main container terminals of Antwerp, located at the North Sea. Depending on the framework and planning purposes several estimates can provide useful information on vessel arrivals. Sometimes, it can be useful for planners to infer a quantitative estimate of the delay/advance …
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Natural gradients in temperature and nitrogen: Iceland represents a unique environment to clarify long-term global change effects on carbon dynamics
… on carbon dynamics. Joint doctoral thesis at Antwerp University and Agricultural University of Iceland. Global change is one of the greatest challenges of our generation. Surface temperatures are rising as a consequence of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but projections remain …
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Bio-physical controls on tidal network geomorphology
… (Netherlands) in partnership with University of Antwerp (Belgium), to assess vegetation distribution and productivity in the tidal frame. Particularly, emphasis was placed on extending investigations on the possible presence of relationships involving vegetation properties in different climatic …
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The other cross-channel neighbor: Imagining and appropriating Belgium in nineteenth-century British literature and culture
This dissertation investigates the effects of increasingly negative perceptions on the representation of Belgium in Victorian literature, but also those of more positive associations, particularly in the literature that more closely followed Belgium's independence. The study focuses on works by …