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    The Dulle Griet ("Mad Meg", named after the Flemish folklore figure Dull Gret) is a medieval large-calibre gun founded in Gent (Ghent). One notable bombard...
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    Dulle Griet (anglicized as Dull Gret), also known as Mad Meg, is a figure of Flemish folklore who is the subject of a 1563 oil-on-panel by Flemish renaissance...
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  • Bombards Bombard Byzantine bombard (Greek) Dardanelles bombard (Turkish) Dulle Griet Faule Grete Faule Mette Grose Bochse Mons Meg Orban bombard Pumhart von...
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    similar to bell-founding. Known examples include the Pumhart von Steyr, Dulle Griet and Mons Meg (all iron) as well as the cast-bronze Faule Mette, Faule...
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    very large-calibre guns include the wrought-iron Pumhart von Steyr and Dulle Griet as well as the cast-bronze Faule Mette, Faule Grete, and Grose Bochse...
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    Brabant, show many other circulating folk tales, such as the legend of Dulle Griet (Mad Meg), 1562. Jheronimus Bosch (or Jeroen Bosch) is a world famous...
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    primarily in siege warfare, including the wrought-iron Mons Meg and Dulle Griet as well as the cast-bronze Faule Mette, Faule Grete and Grose Bochse...
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    The one in Ghent can be visited today, undamaged. The cannon is named "Dulle Griet" which translates into "Mad Meg". For a while in its early days the Mons...
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    Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562), Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Dulle Griet (1563), Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp The Wedding Dance (1566)...
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    shown through The Fall of Rebel Angels but through art pieces such as Dulle Griet and in the series of engravings of the Vices and the Virtues completed...
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    Examples of pieces similar to Orban's productions like the Faule Mette, Dulle Griet, Mons Meg and the Pumhart von Steyr are still extant from the period...
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    Early 15th-century Flemish giant cannon Dulle Griet at Ghent (caliber of 660 mm)...
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  • 12. Rodrigo 13. Dulle Griet 14. Vassya 15. Œil de ciel All albums have been written and drawn by Hermann, except Rodrigo, Dulle Griet, Vassya and Œil...
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    primarily in siege warfare, including the wrought-iron Pumhart von Steyr, Dulle Griet and Mons Meg as well as the cast-bronze Faule Grete and Grose Bochse...
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  • century are the equally cast-bronze Faule Mette and the wrought-iron Dulle Griet and Mons Meg. Schmidtchen 1977, p. 235, Fn. 88 Schmidtchen, Volker (1977)...
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    primarily in siege warfare, including the wrought-iron Pumhart von Steyr, Dulle Griet and Mons Meg as well as the cast-bronze Grose Bochse (also made by the...
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  • cannon (Korean) Culverin cannon (French) Dardanelles bombard (Turkish) Dulle Griet bombard (Belgian) Ekor lotong cannon (Malaysian) Falconet, falcon cannon...
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  •  Ottoman Empire 16th century 650 Dardanelles Gun  Ottoman Empire 1464 660 Dulle Griet  Holy Roman Empire First half of 15th century 735 Faule Mette  Holy Roman...
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    Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Dulle Griet, 1562. While Bruegel's Hellscapes were influenced by The Garden's right panel, his aesthetic betrays a more pessimistic...
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    century) Extant examples include the wrought-iron Pumhart von Steyr, Dulle Griet and Mons Meg as well as the cast-bronze Faule Mette and Faule Grete (all...
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  • body in order to "succeed" in her time. The subject of the painting Dulle Griet by Pieter Breughel, in which a woman wearing an apron and armed with...
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    Ostend, "Het Hemelrijk" in Hasselt, "Het Waterhuis aan de Bierkant", "De Dulle Griet" and "Trappistenhuis" in Ghent, "De Blauwe Kater" in Leuven, the Vaudrées...
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    plays closely based on Brueghel's paintings, and said of Brueghel's "Dulle Griet" that it "was not only a wonderful painting but offered a vision of the...
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  • combination with the Heemkundig Museum (local museum) upstairs, called the Dulle Griet Museum. Preud'homme was born in this house, when his father was a teacher...
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  • Proving Grounds) Ghent (Hoofdbrug) Ghent (Hoefslagstraatje & Leie River or Dulle Griet) Geraardsbergen (Muur van Geraardsbergen) Beersel (Steenweg op Ukkel...
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    panel 117 × 162 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium MS 12 Mad Meg (Dulle Griet) 1562 Oil on panel 117.4 × 162 Museum Mayer van den Bergh MS 13 The Triumph...
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    miniaturists from the Ghent-Bruges school. Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Dulle Griet (Mad Meg or Dull Gret), ca. 1562 Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Proverbs...
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    of the latter is the Dulle Griet (Mad Griet) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, which depicts the folk figure of he Mad Griet, a woman who had defend...
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  • iron large-calibre gun capable of firing 300 kg projectiles, called Dulle Griet, is produced in Europe. West European cannon projectiles transition from...
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  • Standaard Uitgeverij. De Tamtam Kloppers (1953), Standaard Uitgeverij. De Dulle Griet (1966), Standaard Uitgeverij De Efteling Elfjes, Standaard Uitgeverij...
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