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Dong, Pham Van

(Encyclopedia)Dong, Pham Van fäm vän dông [key], 1906–2000, prime minister of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam (1954–76) and of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (1976–87). Scion of a prominent M...

Dongen, Kees van

(Encyclopedia)Dongen, Kees van kās vän dôngˈən [key], 1877–1968, Dutch painter who worked in Paris. After moving to Paris in 1897, he met Matisse and became an exponent of fauvism eight years later. A precoc...

Duong Van Minh

(Encyclopedia)Duong Van Minh: see Minh, Duong Van. ...

Coninxloo, Gillis van

(Encyclopedia)Coninxloo or Koninksloo, Gillis van both: gĭlˈĭs vän kōˈnĭngkslō [key], 1544–1607, Flemish landscape painter. His Judgment of Midas (Dresden), Latona (Hermitage, St. Petersburg), and above a...

Coehoorn, Menno van

(Encyclopedia)Coehoorn, Menno van mĕˈnō vän ko͞oˈhôrn [key], 1641–1704, Dutch military engineer and nobleman. He invented a portable bronze siege mortar called the coehorn. He was considered in his day a r...

Cleve, Joos van

(Encyclopedia)Cleve, Joos van: see Cleef, Joos van. ...

Cleef, Joos van

(Encyclopedia)Cleef or Cleve, Joos van yōs vän klāf, klāˈvə [key], c.1485–1540, Flemish portrait painter. Much of his life was spent in Antwerp. He is often identified with the Master of the Death of the Vi...

Everdingen, Allart van

(Encyclopedia)Everdingen, Allart van älˈärt vän āˈfərdĭngən [key], 1621–75, Dutch painter and etcher. Although he worked primarily in Haarlem and Amsterdam, the scenery of Sweden and Norway forms the sub...

Schoreel, Jan van

(Encyclopedia)Schoreel, Jan van: see Scorel, Jan van. ...

Scorel, Jan van

(Encyclopedia)Scorel, Jan van yän vän skōˈrəl [key], 1495–1562, Dutch portrait and religious painter, influenced by Gossaert in Utrecht and by Dürer in Nuremberg. About 1521 he visited Palestine and later R...