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Vermeer probably painted ‘The Milkmaid,’ ‘Officer and laughing girl’ and  ‘Girl reading a letter by an open window’ between 1657 and 1660. Studies have proved that he used a common setting for the three paintings that does not seem to &#82…

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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 …

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Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window is a painting finished in 1657 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. At first it was attributed to Rembrandt. But, in fact, this was something common. There were great difficulties to establish which painting were by Vermeer himself and which were not, mainly because of problems with […]

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http://www.essentialvermeer.com/cat_about/open.html – It was painted in the late 1650s. – The compositional formula he uses in this painting – depicting a corner of a large room lit through a window on the left side – is inspired by Pieter de Hooch’s work. – Vermeer transforms reality in his painting, which is his most famous characteristic […]

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I have always known how to make bread pudding. I learned it from my mother when I was a child. She was a house maid like I am and she was as hard-working and honest as any other. When my father died at the hands of some merciless Spaniard in the terrible Eighty Years War, […]

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Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window is a painting finished in 1657 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is housed in the Gemäldegalerie of Dresden. The picture was acquired in 1724 by August III, elector of Saxony, together with a number of other paintings bought in Paris. The seller threw in the […]

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c. 1663-1664 Oil on canvas 46.6 x 39.1 cm (18 11/32 x 15 13/32 in.) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam This is the painting I chose to do my presentation on. I will number some details I found interesting: 1- Vermeer has rendered an intense contrast by combining the dynamically expectant posture of the woman with a geometric […]

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Warm colors, memorable faces, and lighting touched with shadow are elements found in the famous paintings of seventeenth century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. In 1632, Johannes Vermeer was born in the city of Delft, in the Netherlands. According to The Life of Johannes Vermeer , his early education included a six year apprenticeship with an […]

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Cuento más tiempo pierdo (o gano, no estoy seguro) en Facebook, más echo de menos funciones de otras herramientas 2.0, en paticular de Delicious, GoogleReader y FriendFeed. De estas tres herramientas (Delicious, GoogleReader y FriendFeed) la que menos se ha visto afectada por mi nueva adicción ha sido sin duda Delicious, que sigue siendo el […]

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TESTU IRUZKINA 1.Maila foniko-fonologikoa 2.Maila morfosintaktikoa:deklinabidea, aditza, perpausa… 3.Lexikoa: hitz elkartuak, eratorriak, maileguak… PERIFRASTIKOAK orainaldia iraganaldia alegiazkoa IZAN -ke da/zaio zen/zitzaion -litz-/-litzaio- +ke dateke/zaioke zatekeen/zitzaiokeen litzateke/litzaioke *EDIN -ke -dadi-/-dakio- zedin/zekion -ledi-/-lekio- +ke daiteke/dakioke zitekeen/zekiokeen liteke/lekioke *EDUN -ke du/dio zuen/zion -lu-/-lio- +ke duke/dioke zukeen/ziokeen luke/lioke *EZAN -ke -deza-/-diezaio- zezan/ziezaion -leza-/-liezaio- +ke dezake/diezaioke zezakeen/ziezaiokeen lezake/liezaioke TRINKOAK orainaldia […]

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In the last two weeks we have been presenting our power points on the painting we have chosen.  I have already done my presentation on the Girl reading a letter by an open window.  I have focused my presentation mainly on the painting, although I thought that it was important to mention something about the […]

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