View of Delft (Dutch: Zicht op Delft) is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, painted c. 1659–1661. The painting of the Dutch artist's hometown is among...
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A View of Delft, with a Musical Instrument Seller's Stall is a 1652 painting by Carel Fabritius. It is an oil painting on canvas of 20.9 by 35.7 cm (8...
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Delft (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdɛl(ə)ft] ) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to...
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The Little Street (redirect from View of the Houses In Delft)
typical aspect of the life in a Dutch Golden Age town. It is one of only three Vermeer paintings of views of Delft, the others being View of Delft and the now...
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Johannes Vermeer (redirect from The Sphinx of Delft)
use of light in his work. "Almost all his paintings", Hans Koningsberger wrote, "are apparently set in two smallish rooms in his house in Delft; they...
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Church) is a Protestant church in the city of Delft in the Netherlands. The building is located on Delft Market Square (Markt), opposite to the City...
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Carel Fabritius (category Painters from Delft)
and experimented with perspective and lighting. Among his works are A View of Delft (1652; National Gallery, London), The Goldfinch (1654), and The Sentry...
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Mirror (c. 1524) and A View of Delft (1652) by the Dutch Golden Age painter Carel Fabritius. In 1959, Flocon had acquired a copy of Grafiek en tekeningen...
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ISBN 978-1-84866-001-4. Liedtke, Walter; et al. (2001). Vermeer and the Delft School. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Yale University Press, New Haven. ISBN 0-300-08848-5...
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The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft) is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located...
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The Delft school is a category of mid-17th-century Dutch Golden Age painting based in the city of Delft. Its artists favoured images of domestic life...
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part of a larger structure, perhaps a window jamb or a protective cover. It is possible that the painting was in its creator's workshop in Delft at the...
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Cityscape (section History of cityscapes in art)
Netherlands. In his famous View of Delft in 1660–1661 Jan Vermeer painted a quite accurate portrait of the city Delft. Cities like Amsterdam, Haarlem and...
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The Milkmaid (Vermeer) (category Paintings of Cupid)
cityscape, View of Delft.) In 1765 the painting was auctioned by Leendert Pieter de Neufville. "The famous milkmaid, by Vermeer of Delft, artful", went...
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Johannes Vermeer's View of Delft. The Ghent architect, draughtsman and engraver Lieven Cruyl (1640–1720) contributed to the development of the vedute during...
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Han van Meegeren (category Delft University of Technology alumni)
described it as "a landscape of the eighteenth century into which had been imported scraps of the 'View of Delft'" (mostly the Delft New Church's tower). The...
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Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) (category Cultural depictions of Johannes Vermeer)
household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by Colin Firth) at the time he painted Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665) in the city of Delft in Holland...
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for his contributions toward the establishment of microbiology as a scientific discipline. Raised in Delft, Dutch Republic, Van Leeuwenhoek worked as a...
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Edward T. Cone (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
554–74. Reprinted in Cone, Music: A View from Delft, 77- 93. Review of Hector Berlioz: Review of New Edition of the Complete Works, 9: Grande Messe Des...
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Mauritshuis (category Buildings of the Dutch Golden Age)
1665) Rembrandt van Rijn The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (c. 1632) Johannes Vermeer View of Delft (c. 1660) Paulus Potter The Young Bull (1647)...
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Oil paint (redirect from History of oil paint)
Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. Oil paint also has practical...
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Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) (category Cultural depictions of Johannes Vermeer)
17th-century Delft, Holland, the novel was inspired by local painter Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. Chevalier presents a fictional account of Vermeer...
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View of Delft artwork. 1653 - Royal Delft porcelain factory begins operating. 1654 - 12 October: Delft Explosion. 1661 - Vermeer paints View of Delft...
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Vermeer's Hat (redirect from Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World)
" By studying and analysing the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, beginning with his landscape View of Delft (1660), and examining the scant documents detailing...
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Anthony Bailey (author) (category Alumni of Merton College, Oxford)
ISBN 978-1-84976-192-5 Vermeer: A View of Delft, Henry Holt NY 2001, Pimlico London 2013 ISBN 978-0-712-66472-1 John Constable: A Kingdom of His Own, Vintage Books...
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York: Konecky & Konecky. ISBN 1-56852-308-4. Liedtke, Walter (2001). A View of Delft: Vermeer and his Contemporaries. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09053-6...
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Windmill ranking third after Rembrandt's Night Watch and Vermeer's View of Delft. Ruisdael's windmill no longer stands, although its foundations can...
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Maria Thins (category People from Delft)
and operator of the family's inn in Delft. Vermeer and Catharina lived at Thins house by 1660. The couple had fifteen children, four of whom died in infancy...
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and many new canals were dug out in and around various cities such as Delft, Leiden and Amsterdam for defence and transport purposes. Many wealthy merchants...
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Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid (category Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland)
in geometry and abstract forms, recalling his earlier View of Delft, The Lacemaker and The Art of Painting. Lady Writing was stolen on 27 April 1974, along...
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