Merry company is the term in art history for a painting, usually from the 17th century, showing a small group of people enjoying themselves, usually seated...
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Merry Company is a c. 1620-1622 painting by the Dutch artist Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, in Budapest. It belongs to...
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small-format cabinet pictures of genre scenes, in particular of Caravaggesque merry companies. Later he switched to history painting, working on larger formats in...
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Merry Company is a 1622 oil on canvas painting by the Dutch artist Gerard van Honthorst. Set in a tavern, it is also known as The Prodigal Son, The Return...
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Merry, Merry Christmas is the third studio and only Christmas album by pop band New Kids on the Block, released in the United States by Columbia Records...
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Kingdom.: 298 : 94 Merry Maids was founded in 1979, and was acquired by ServiceMaster in 1988.: 298 : 140 In 2007, the company had 1,400 independently...
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Meriadoc Brandybuck, usually called Merry, is a Hobbit, a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, featured throughout his...
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The Merry Men are the group of outlaws who follow Robin Hood in English literature and folklore. The group appears in the earliest ballads about Robin...
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Jan Sanders van Hemessen (section Merry companies)
a tavern and can be regarded as an important early statement of the merry company tradition. He also painted a small number of portraits, some of exceptional...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed...
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Merry Christmas is a 2024 Indian Hindi-Tamil bilingual neo-noir mystery thriller film directed by Sriram Raghavan and produced by Tips Films together...
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Anthonie Palamedesz. (section Merry companies)
Dutch portrait and genre painter. He is in particular known for his merry company paintings depicting elegant figures engaged in play, music and conversation...
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engraving by Gillis van Breen (1595–1622), with the same scene. The merry company showed a group of figures at a party, whether making music at home or...
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Merry Clayton (born December 25, 1948) is an American soul and gospel singer. She contributed vocals to numerous tracks and worked with many major recording...
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Merry-Go-Round was a national clothing retail chain owned by Merry-Go-Round Enterprises, Inc., that thrived from the 1970s through the early 1990s. The...
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1696 the painting, being sold on an auction in Amsterdam, was named "A merry company in a room". The woman in black, the leering coupler, "in a nun's costume"...
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Japanese: 戦場のメリークリスマス, Hepburn: Senjō no Merī Kurisumasu, lit. 'Battlefield's Merry Christmas'), also known as Furyo (Japanese...
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Merry Riana (born 29 May 1980) is a Chinese-Indonesian motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and writer. Merry Riana was born on 29 May 1980 to Suanto Sosrosaputro...
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Joos van Winghe (section Merry companies)
history paintings, portraits, allegories and genre scenes, including merry companies. He worked in Brussels as court painter and left Flanders after the...
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Jacob de Formentrou (section Merry companies)
Baroque painter active in Antwerp who specialized in the genres of merry companies and gallery paintings. Very little is known about the life of Jacob...
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painting during the time. For example, in Willem Buytewech’s painting The Merry Company (circa 1620–1622), there are three young men and a woman sitting around...
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recurring themes in Flemish and Dutch genre painting is that of the merry company. These works typically show a group of figures at a party, whether making...
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rather than to explore an interest in the subject matter. In these merry company compositions, the focal point is not dispersed among numerous figure...
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– 17 May 1656), born at Haarlem, was a Dutch Golden Age painter of merry company scenes, festivals and ballroom scenes. He played a role in the development...
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Maid Marian and her Merry Men is a British children's television series created and written by Tony Robinson and directed by David Bell. It began in 1989...
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Baggins's quest to destroy the One Ring. Pippin joins the Company of the Ring. He and Merry become separated from the rest of the group at the breaking...
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called The Garden Party. It is the apotheosis of the outdoor courtly Merry Company genre painting, and anticipates the French Fête champêtre type of the...
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Flemish painter known mainly for his genre scenes and paintings of merry and gallant companies. Details about the life of François Xaver Henri Verbeeck are...
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Carousel (redirect from Merry-go-round)
A carousel or carrousel (mainly North American English), merry-go-round (international), Galloper (international) or roundabout (British English) is a...
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The Merry Gentlemen is a 2024 American romantic comedy Christmas film directed by Peter Sullivan, and starring Britt Robertson and Chad Michael Murray...
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