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Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares.The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour.
Maria Adeline Alice Schweistal or Fanny Psicha (1864–1950), Belgium-born Dutch painter; Suze Slager-Velsen (1883–1964), painter; Carolein Smit (born 1960), ceramic art sculptor; Maria Geertruida Snabilie (1776–1838), painter; Ellen Spijkstra (born 1957), ceramic artist; Adriana Spilberg (1652–1700), Dutch Golden Age painter
Woman with a Pearl Necklace by Johannes Vermeer is a Dutch Golden Age painting of about 1664. Painted in oils on canvas, Johannes Vermeer portrayed a young Dutch woman, most likely of upper-class descent, dressing herself with two yellow ribbons, pearl earrings, and a pearl necklace.
This is a list of Dutch painters who were born and/or were primarily active in the Netherlands. For artists born and active in the Southern Netherlands , see the List of Flemish painters . The artists are sorted by century and then alphabetically by last name.
Marcel Wanders (2 July 1963) is a Dutch designer, and art director in the Marcel Wanders studio in Amsterdam, who designs architectural, interior and industrial projects. Life [ edit ]
Dutch Design has been characterized as minimalist, experimental, innovative, quirky, and humorous. [2] [4] "Dutch design is simple and powerful", according to Hugo van den Bos, strategy director of Dutch graphic design studio Koeweiden Postma. Author and journalist Tracy Metz notes that, "The Dutch have the ability to make fun of themselves.
Woman Reading a Letter (Dutch: Brieflezende vrouw) [1] [2] is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, produced in around 1663.It has been part of the collection of the City of Amsterdam since the Van der Hoop bequest in 1854, and in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam since it opened in 1885, the first Vermeer it acquired.
Woman with a Lute, also known as Woman with a Lute Near a Window, is a painting created about 1662–1663 by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The painting depicts a young woman wearing an ermine-trimmed jacket and enormous pearl earrings as she eagerly looks out a window, presumably expecting ...