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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 his best known. [ 1 ] It is one of three known paintings of Delft by Vermeer, along with The Little Street and the lost painting House Standing in Delft , [ 2 ] and his only cityscape. [ 3 ]
Delftware or Delft pottery, also known as Delft Blue [1] (Dutch: Delfts blauw) or as delf, [2] is a general term now used for Dutch tin-glazed earthenware, a form of faience. Most of it is blue and white pottery , and the city of Delft in the Netherlands was the major centre of production, but the term covers wares with other colours, and made ...
The Delft school is a category of mid-17th-century Dutch Golden Age painting named after the city of its centre, Delft. It is best known for genre painting —images of domestic life, views of households, church interiors, courtyards, squares and the streets of that city.
The Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles N.V. (trading publicly as Royal Delft) [1] is a Dutch manufacturer of Delftware, a type of earthenware, headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands. It is the only remaining factory out of 32 that were established in Delft during the 17th century.
Vliet, Hendrick Cornelisz van (Delft 1611/12 – Delft 1675) Vliet, Willem van der (Delft c. 1584 – Delft 1642) Vogelaer, Carel de (Maastricht 1653 – Rome 1695) Vois, Ary de (Utrecht 1632/34 – Leiden 1680) Vonck, Elias (Amsterdam c. 1605 – Amsterdam 1652) Vonck, Jan (ToruĊ 1631 – Amsterdam 1664) Voorhout, Johannes (Uithoorn 1647 ...
Voldersgracht, where the artist grew up in Delft Present-day Vlamingstraat in Delft. While generally agreed to depict a contemporary street scene in 17th-century Delft, where Vermeer lived and worked, the exact location of the scene Vermeer painted has long been a topic of research and discussion, with studies arguing for the Voldersgracht, where the Vermeer Centre is located, or the Nieuwe ...
The Night Watch is also replicated in Delft blue at Royal Delft in the Netherlands. This version consists of 480 tiles. This version consists of 480 tiles. Two painters of the manufacture worked simultaneously from the left and right end of the frame, and they met at the center to complete the grand piece.
De Delftse Pauw was [1] a pottery factory from the 17th century located in the north of the city Delft (in the Netherlands) on the Delftweg (close to the Schie). It was one of the few pottery factories which carry on the tradition of handpainted Delft pottery. It was taken over by Heinen Delft Blauw on 1 July 2018, but was declared bankrupt in ...