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    More's Utopia, although fictional, includes Pieter Gillis as a character in Book I. More dedicated Utopia to Gillis, who may have designed the Utopian alphabet...
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  • Gillis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Gillis (1936–2022), Irish politician Ann Gillis (1927–2018), American actress Brad Gillis...
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    Johannes Secundus • Juan de Valdés, Alfonso de Valdés • Peter Vannes • Pieter Gillis • Gentian Hervetus • Jan Łaski • Pierre Barbier • Lambert Grunnius (fictitious): 337 ...
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    Gillis van Coninxloo (now also referred to as Gillis van Coninxloo II but previously referred to as Gillis van Coninxloo III) (24 January 1544 – January...
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  • las Casas (1484–1566) (Spanish) Beatus Rhenanus (1485–1547) (German) Pieter Gillis (1486–1533) (Flemish) Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566) (Austrian/Slovene)...
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    recommendation from Erasmus to Pieter Gillis. In Antwerp, he also bought some oak panels and may have met the painter Quentin Matsys. Gillis then seemed to have...
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  • Hanibal Lucić, Croatian poet and playwright (died 1553) 1486: 28 July – Pieter Gillis, Flemish humanist, printer and Antwerp city official (died 1533) 1488:...
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    Gillis Pieter de Neve (30 December 1823, in Bergen-op-Zoom – 19 September 1883, in Leiden) was a Dutch Lieutenant General, commander of the Royal Netherlands...
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    alphabet, verses by Pieter Gillis, Gerard Geldenhouwer, and Cornelius Grapheus, and Thomas More's epistle dedicating the work to Gillis. The work begins...
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    Pieter Pourbus. Both Gillis and Antoon enjoyed the financial support of their father before they became artists recognized in their own right. Gillis...
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    Italian poet also writing Latin verse (born 1474) November 6 or 11 – Pieter Gillis, Flemish humanist, printer and Antwerp city official (born 1486) Unknown...
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    followed by his grandmother and brother Jan. Pieter seems to have entered the studio of the landscape painter Gillis van Coninxloo (1544–1607), who was related...
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    place] and 'eu-topos' [good place]) among themselves as well as to Pieter Gillis and Hieronymus van Busleyden. Utopia's original edition included a symmetrical...
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  • (1503–1520), then Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1520–1547) (d. 1547) July 28 – Pieter Gillis, French philosopher (d. 1533) August 3 – Imperia Cognati, Italian courtesan...
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  • Theodorus Gaza to him. He is also referred to in Erasmus' letter to Pieter Gillis. Boeynaems, P. (1959). "Afinus een Lierse arts en vriend van Erasmus...
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    Meese. Of their five sons, the four youngest would become artists: Gillis, Pieter and Antoon became painters while Ambrosius became a master goldsmith...
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    of painter Gillis II Coignet (1586 – after 1641), son of Gillis I Coignet (1542–1599) and father of painters Jacob (1610–1676) and Gillis III +→ David...
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  • Gilles is also an Anglicisation of the name of the Flemish humanist Pieter Gillis. Peter Gilles was born 1776 in France and died 1839 in Philadelphia...
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  • (1503–1520), then Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1520–1547) (d. 1547) July 28 – Pieter Gillis, French philosopher (d. 1533) August 3 – Imperia Cognati, Italian courtesan...
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    the 2 directors of that review. He was a board member of the Centrum Pieter Gillis, a thinktank on pluralism attached to the University of Antwerp and...
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    and letters by other humanists from the circle of Martens, including Pieter Gillis and Gerard Geldenhouwer. Though no other Martens' editions are known...
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    painters Gillis van Coninxloo, Anton Mirou, and Hendrik van der Borcht the elder & son. He died in Frankenthal. Devisscher, Hans. "Schoubroeck, Pieter". Oxford...
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    died in Haarlem. According to Houbraken, he taught (horse) painting to Gillis Schagen, the son of an important councilman of Alkmaar. According to the...
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  • Gillis Schagen (1616, Alkmaar – 1668, Alkmaar), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Houbraken, he was the son of Pieter Jansz Schagen, an important...
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    became a pupil of Pieter Pourbus, a leading history and portrait painter active in Bruges. Both Antoon and his brothers Gillis and Pieter enjoyed the financial...
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  • kayaker Peter Giles (footballer) (born 1958), Australian footballer Pieter Gillis (1486–1533), humanist and friend of Thomas More Peter de Giles (1927–2015)...
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    the Bruges cathedral. Pieter Claeissens (II) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch) Alexandra Zvereva, Gillis Claeissens Portrait of...
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  • 1583) Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (Breda? 1525 – Brussels 1569) Cock, Jan Wellens de (Leiden? c. 1470 – Antwerp 1527) Coninxloo, Gillis van (Antwerp 1544 – Amsterdam...
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    who had emigrated to the Dutch Republic such as Hans Bol, Gillis d'Hondecoeter and Gillis van Coninxloo. Landscape paintings in this style usually used...
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  • 1634) Coecke van Aelst, Pieter (Brussels, 1502 – Brussels, 1550) Coignet, Gillis (Antwerp, 1542 – Antwerp, 1599) Coignet, Gillis (1586–1647) Collaert, Jan...
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