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(Encyclopedia) Pham Van Dong: see Dong, Pham Van. ...

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

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(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...

(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...

(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...

(Encyclopedia) Hoek van Holland ho͝ok vän hôlˈänt [key] or Hook of Holland, district of Rotterdam, W Netherlands, on the North Sea. It is an outer port of Rotterdam, with which it is connected by the New Waterw...

(Encyclopedia) Doesburg, Theo van tāˈō vän do͞osˈbûrg [key], 1883–1931, Dutch painter, teacher, and writer. Together with Mondrian he founded the magazine De Stijl and successfully proselytized in Europe fo...

(Encyclopedia) Bynkershoek, Cornelius van kôrnāˈlĭs vän bĭngˈkərs-ho͞ok [key], 1673–1743, Dutch writer on international law. His De dominio maris [on the rule of the seas] (1702, tr. 1923) is a classic on...