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‘Officer and laughing girl’- An story inspired in Vermeer’s painting

mayo 21st, 2010 · Comments Off on ‘Officer and laughing girl’- An story inspired in Vermeer’s painting

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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‘Officer and laughing girl’ Another Vermeer painting.

mayo 21st, 2010 · Comments Off on ‘Officer and laughing girl’ Another Vermeer painting.

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 by an Open Window

mayo 20th, 2010 · Comments Off on Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window

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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Understanding “A Girl Reading a Letter by an Open window”. Important facts taken from the text on the webpage:

mayo 20th, 2010 · Comments Off on Understanding “A Girl Reading a Letter by an Open window”. Important facts taken from the text on the webpage:

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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The Milkmaid (story)

mayo 15th, 2010 · Comments Off on The Milkmaid (story)

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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what wikipedia says about “a girl reading a book by an open window´´

mayo 11th, 2010 · Comments Off on what wikipedia says about “a girl reading a book by an open window´´

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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akire 2010-05-11 11:05:53

mayo 11th, 2010 · Comments Off on akire 2010-05-11 11:05:53

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A woman in blue reading a letter

mayo 8th, 2010 · Comments Off on A woman in blue reading a letter

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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Johannes Vermeer

mayo 8th, 2010 · Comments Off on Johannes Vermeer

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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Cuanto más uso Facebook, más valoro Delicious

mayo 6th, 2010 · Comments Off on Cuanto más uso Facebook, más valoro Delicious

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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(euskal) testuak

mayo 5th, 2010 · Comments Off on (euskal) testuak

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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Coming to an end

mayo 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off on Coming to an end

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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