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  2. List of paintings by Johannes Vermeer - Wikipedia

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    Detail of the painting The Procuress (c. 1656), proposed self portrait by Vermeer [1] The following is a list of paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), a Dutch Golden Age painter. After two or three early history paintings, he concentrated almost entirely on genre works, typically interiors with one or two figures. Vermeer's paintings of ...

  3. Johannes Vermeer - Wikipedia

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    Johannes Vermeer (/ v ər ˈ m ɪər, v ər ˈ m ɛər / vər-MEER, vər-MAIR, Dutch: [joːˈɦɑnəs fərˈmeːr]; see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.

  4. Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window - Wikipedia

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    Essential Vermeer website pages on the painting; The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer, exhibition catalog fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on the painting; Johannes Vermeer, A Lady Reading a Letter, Colourlex; High resolution image at Google Cultural Institute

  5. History of painting - Wikipedia

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    Vermeer, Gerard ter Borch, and Pieter de Hooch brought great technical refinement to the painting of domestic scenes, as did Willem Claesz. Heda to still life. In contrast, Rembrandt excelled in painting every type of subject, and developed an individual painterly style in which the chiaroscuro and dark backgrounds derived from Caravaggio and ...

  6. 1939 New York World's Fair - Wikipedia

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    Other objects included Vermeer's painting The Milkmaid, [377] a pencil sharpener, [378] the White Manna diner, [379] General Motors' model city Futurama, [378] [303] and the Nimatron computer game. [380] In addition, older objects were displayed at the fair, such as a model of the world's first bicycle. [381] Electronics were showcased at the fair.

  7. Mistress and Maid - Wikipedia

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    Mistress and Maid (c. 1667) by Johannes Vermeer. Mistress and Maid (Dutch: Dame en dienstbode) is an oil-on-canvas painting produced by Johannes Vermeer c. 1667. It portrays two women, a mistress and her maid, as they look over the mistress' letter. The painting displays Vermeer's preference for yellow and blue, female models, and domestic scenes.

  8. Timeline of North American prehistory - Wikipedia

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    1000 BC: Pottery making widespread in the Eastern Woodlands. 1000 BC–100 AD: Adena culture takes form in the Ohio River valley, carving fine stone pipes placed with their dead in gigantic burial mounds. [1] See Prehistory of Ohio. c. 800 BC: Adena people erect earthworks and mounds in present-day Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and ...

  9. A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals - Wikipedia

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    Walter Liedtke has described the painting as a "minor late work" by Vermeer. [6] The colour scheme is typical of Vermeer's mature work. The "luminosity and finely modelled passages" of the young woman's skirt recall the Lady Standing at a Virginal and are often cited as the painting's best feature, contrasting with the less skillfully painted ...

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