Did Vermeer use the Camera Obscura? According to the BBC History webpage, there is no documentary evidence that Jan Vermeer used the camera obscura in his paintings. Nevertheless, it is commonly believed that he did. Nowadays, the only sources of … Sigue leyendo 
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Vermeer and the camera obscura
Marzo 31st, 2010 · Comentarios desactivados
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Vermeer’s colours
Marzo 31st, 2010 · Comentarios desactivados
Critics say that there are no more than 20 different pigments in Vermeer’s paintings. However, he seems to use 10 of these pigments constantly. We have to take into account that he lived in Delft in the 17th century. In … Sigue leyendo 
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The size of Vermeer paintings
Marzo 30th, 2010 · Comentarios desactivados
Not everybody knows that Vermeer paintings are indeed very small. If you have just seen them on the Internet or books, you may be amazed to discover their actual size. In this picture you can see the painting ‘Officer and … Sigue leyendo 
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Officer and laughing girl
Marzo 30th, 2010 · Comentarios desactivados
‘Officer and laughing girl’ is a painting done by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer between 1655-1670. It represents a laughing woman, with a glass of wine in his hand, who is looking to an officer whose face is not completely … Sigue leyendo 
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Officer and laughing girl
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The painting ‘Officer and laughing girl’ was done by Johannes Vermeer between 1655 and 1670. It presents a inside room bathed by the traditional golden light used by Vermeer. The composition portraits an official of the Dutch army with his red uniform and a big black hat in the foreground who is talking with a [...]
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Interoperabilidad, reputación y superabundancia
Marzo 30th, 2010 · Comentarios desactivados
Tengo la primera versión de mi curriculum 2.0. Lo estoy preparando porque de web 2.0 y redes sociales sé bastante (y no sólo por experiencia, también por investigación) y me he enterado de que buscan a gente como yo. No es un curriculum completo; sólo hablo de mi experiencia en este campo. Compruebo además que [...]
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English for special purposes
Marzo 30th, 2010 · Comentarios desactivados
I’m very excited to present a new subject in my last semester as an undergraduate. It’s called English for special purposes and I’m going to be working with a painting by Jan Vermeer. These are the tools I’m going to … Sigue leyendo 
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Nokturn – Todo es Fugaz
Marzo 17th, 2010 · Comentarios desactivados
Después de intensas labores de grabación, el grupo alicantino Nokturn ha sacado por fin su disco debut, que está disponible de manera totalmente gratuita en la red. Se titula “Todo es Fugaz” y contiene un total de 11 canciones, todas compuestas por el propio grupo. Para descargar “Todo es Fugaz”, sólo tenéis que pasar por [...]
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A GIRL READING A LETTER AT AN OPEN WINDOW
Marzo 16th, 2010 · Comentarios desactivados
JOHANNES VERMEER’S A GIRL READING A LETTER AT AN OPEN WINDOW I would like to begin this article with some notes on Vermeer’s life and style. Then, I would like to focus on the painting I have chosen. LIFE Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter whose paintings were focused on domestic interior scenes [...]
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Europako hizkuntzen errekurtsoen erakundea
Marzo 16th, 2010 · Comentarios desactivados
ELRA European Language Resources Association, Europako hizkuntzen errekurtsoen erakundea, 1995ean sortu zuten Luxenburgon. Europako baliabide linguistikoen erakundea da eta horixe du xede, teknologia berrien inguruko baliabide linguistikoak bultzatzea. Bere datu basea modu honetan banatzen da: 1. Ahozko forman 2. Idatzizko forman: Lexica & Corpora 3. Terminologian 4. Multimedian Idatzizko forma eta terminologia monolingueak eta multilingueak [...]
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Picture’s Presentation
Marzo 10th, 2010 · Comentarios desactivados
This subject is split in to two parts. On one hand, as I did mention several times I have to create an story from one of Veermer’s paintings. Apart from that, we have to do a presentation on the painting. I think it is important in this presentation to underline the importance of the elements [...]
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Dictionaries: WordReference
Marzo 8th, 2010 · Comentarios desactivados
WordReference is a free on line dictionary that provides translations for English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Japanese and Russian among other languages. It translates words from the following languages pairs: English-French, English-Italian, English-Spanish, French-Spanish, Spanish-Portuguese and English-Portuguese. Recently, as of June 2009, more language pairs have been added: English-German, English-Russian, English-Polish, English-Romanian, English-Czech, English-Greek, [...]
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