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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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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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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Merry Christmas is a 2024 Indian mystery thriller film directed by Sriram Raghavan and produced by Tips Films together with Matchbox Pictures. The film...
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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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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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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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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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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 Everyone" is a festive song recorded by Welsh singer-songwriter Shakin' Stevens. Written by Bob Heatlie and produced by Dave Edmunds...
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Merry Christmas is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, and her first Christmas album. Released by Columbia Records on...
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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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Merry-Go-Round was an American 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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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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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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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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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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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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"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song written in 1943 by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical...
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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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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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"Merry Xmas Everybody" is a song by the British rock band Slade, released as a non-album single in 1973. The song was written by lead vocalist Noddy Holder...
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"Merry Christmas" is a song by English singer-songwriters Ed Sheeran and Elton John. It was released through Asylum and Atlantic Records as a single on...
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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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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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"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is an English Christmas carol, listed as numbers 230 and 9681 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The famous version of the carol...
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