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 […]
Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window
20 de mayo, 2010 | erikatxu
Understanding “A Girl Reading a Letter by an Open window”. Important facts taken from the text on the webpage:
20 de mayo, 2010 | erikatxu
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 […]
The Milkmaid (story)
15 de mayo, 2010 | Daniel Vergara
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, […]
what wikipedia says about “a girl reading a book by an open window´´
11 de mayo, 2010 | erikatxu
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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11 de mayo, 2010 | erikatxu
A woman in blue reading a letter
8 de mayo, 2010 | amaia morris larripa
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 […]
Johannes Vermeer
8 de mayo, 2010 | amaia morris larripa
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 […]
Cuanto más uso Facebook, más valoro Delicious
6 de mayo, 2010 | Joseba Abaitua
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 […]
(euskal) testuak
5 de mayo, 2010 | maribeltz
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 […]
Coming to an end
3 de mayo, 2010 | Eos Gonzalez
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 […]
Johannes Vermeer’s “The Milkmaid”: an article by Daniel Vergara.
2 de mayo, 2010 | Daniel Vergara
A piece of art is not only a mere painting in which certain imagery is represented. It is also a way of representing reality, capturing the painter’s personality in every brushstroke and even, reflecting the mentality and concerns of a particular period. Therefore, as a means of understanding both, the artist and the painting and […]
Digital Libraries
25 de abril, 2010 | deiene26
A digital libray is a type of library only accesible through the Internet since they are kept in digital formats. In this case we´ll be accesing to the Early American Digital Library and the UCSF Library, both of them American digital libraries. While the Early American Library is a little bit more specific showing, through […]