Jan Vermeer's famous painting A Lady Standing at a Virginal shows the characteristic practice of his time, with the instrument mounted on a table and the player standing.

There is a well-known painting by Johannes Vermeer titled The Geographer, which is often linked to Vermeer's The Astronomer.

Vermeer's famous painting Girl with a Pearl Earring is sometimes believed to depict the sin of vanity, as the young girl has adorned herself before a glass without further positive allegorical attributes.

Other exhibits included Vermeer's painting The Milkmaid from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a streamlined pencil sharpener, a diner ( still in operation as the White Mana in Jersey City, New Jersey ), a futuristic car based city by GM and early televisions.

Vermeer's famous painting Girl with a Pearl Earring is sometimes believed to depict the sin of vanity, as the young girl has adorned herself before a glass without further positive allegorical attributes.

The painting being copied is Vermeer's Het meisje met de parel.

The thief publishes many advertisements in the newspaper, explaining that he will give the painting back if the community can discover which paintings under Vermeer's name were really painted by him.

Two paintings, Gainsborough's Madame Bacelli and Vermeer's Lady writing a Letter with her Maid, the latter probably the most valuable painting of the collection, were stolen twice across the thefts, although each was subsequently recovered.

The imaginary painting ' Girl in Hyacinth Blue ', the principal object in this film, is painted exactly in Vermeer's painting technique by the American master painter Jonathan Janson, author and webmaster of the world-known website about the life and work of Johannes Vermeer " Essential Vermeer ".

The painting being copied is Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring | Het meisje met de parel.

Northern European works include Johannes Vermeer's The Lacemaker and The Astronomer ; Caspar David Friedrich's The Tree of Crows ; Rembrandt's The Supper at Emmaus, Bathsheba at Her Bath, and The Slaughtered Ox.

In Europe, some early paintings featuring girls were Petrus Christus ' Portrait of a Young Girl ( about 1460 ), Juan de Flandes ' Portrait of a Young Girl ( about 1505 ), Frans Hals ' Die Amme mit dem Kind in 1620, Diego Velázquez ' Las Meninas in 1656, Jan Steen's The Feast of St. Nicolas ( about 1660 ) and Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring along with Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window.

She hears the young man approaching on his bicycle and casts aside the book she was reading ( revealing a reproduction of Vermeer's The Lacemaker ).

Sondra Eklund, who writes a book review blog, noted that the reader was left with the impression to study Vermeer's paintings and art more closely.

Street artist reproducing Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring on the sidewalk ( 2005 )

The wrist of the Vermeer figure resting limply on a crutch-like maulstick refers visually to the strangely vaguely painted hand of the artist resting on a maulstick in Vermeer's Art of Painting.

The figure on the left has been called Vermeer's self-portrait.

Occasionally work that has previously been declared a forgery is later accepted as genuine ; Vermeer's Young Woman Seated at the Virginals had been regarded as a forgery from 1947 until March, 2004, when it was finally declared genuine, although some experts still disagree.

In the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vermeer's patron remarks that Vermeer used " cow piss " to paint his wife.

A special case of double forgery is the forging of Vermeer's paintings by Han van Meegeren, and in its turn the forging of Van Meegeren's work by his son Jacques van Meegeren.

File: VermeerMilkmaid. jpg | The Milkmaid, Vermeer's use of light to model throughout his compositions is exceptionally complex and delicate.

Theodore Hesburgh ( President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame ) wrote, " It is difficult to imagine a more appropriate group of theologians and preachers for the Vermeer's Seven Last Words of Christ recording.

Poland's Ruch Muzyczny summed up, " The Vermeer's interpretation seems so nearly ideal that one can more easily appreciate music as universal harmony.

Her purchase of Vermeer's The Concert at auction in Paris in 1892 was her first major acquisition.

However, Vermeer's work typically portrayed a woman working alone instead of a family scene as in A Woman Peeling Apples.

As the thief gains publicity by challenging the community to figure out which paintings claimed to be Vermeer's were indeed painted by him, everyone starts to look at the depth in art.

Paxton was fascinated not only with Vermeer's imagery, but also with the system of optics he employed.

He studied Vermeer's works closely, and discovered that only one area in his compositions was entirely in focus, while the rest were somewhat blurred.

The art market was as severely affected as other trades-a famous comment by Jan Vermeer's widow described how he was unable to sell work thereafter.

Vermeer's Lady Writing a Letter With Her Maid and Goya's Portrait of Dona Antonia Zarate were recovered in 1993.

These paintings are both thought to represent the growing influence and rise in prominence of scientific enquiry in Europe at the time of their painting, 1668 – 69.

Over the High Altar is an oil painting of the Martyrdom of Saint Andrew ( 1668 ) by French painter Guillaume Courtois, a depiction which shows Andrew tied to the diagonals of the form of the cross on which he was crucified.

Ildefonso ), a painting by Peter Paul Rubens.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

In addition to going to the coronation, he made excursions to Cologne ( where he admired the painting of Stefan Lochner ), Nijmegen ,'s-Hertogenbosch, Bruges ( where he saw Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges ), Ghent ( where he admired van Eyck's altarpiece ), and Zeeland.

In painting, there was only a portrait of Hieronymus Holtzschuher, a Madonna and Child ( 1526 ), Salvator Mundi ( 1526 ), and two panels showing St. John with St. Peter in background and St. Paul with St. Mark in the background.

While canvas needs to be properly sized and primed before painting with oil ( otherwise it will eventually rot the canvas ), acrylic can be safely applied to raw canvas.

Specialist acrylics have been manufactured and used for lino block printing ( acrylic block printing ink produced by Derivan since the early 1980s ), face painting, airbrushing, water color techniques, and fabric screen printing.

* The Bar ( painting ), by John Brack

Berthe Morisot, Child among Staked Roses ( common mistranslation of Child among Hollyhocks ), 1881, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne It was Morisot who persuaded Manet to attempt plein air painting, which she had been practicing since having been introduced to it by Corot.

Saint Boniface ( c 680 – 750 ), Pope Gregory I ( c 540 – 604, r. 590 – 604 ), Adalbert of Egmond ( 8th century ), and priest Jeroen van Noordwijk, depicted in a 1529 painting by Jan Joostsz van Hillegom, currently on display at the Frans Hals Museum.

Bernard of Clairvaux ( 1090 – 1153 ), in a 1700 painting by Georg Andreas Wasshuber ( 1650 – 1732 ) on display at Heiligenkreuz Abbey.

* Cars ( painting ), a series of paintings by Andy Warhol

Another highly regarded portrait from that period is New England Woman ( 1895 ), a nearly all-white oil painting which was purchased by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

A wall painting, which may depict the ancient Anatolian city of Çatalhöyük ( previously known as Catal Huyuk or Çatal Hüyük ), has been dated to the late 7th millennium BCE.

The piece, " Le Marché aux Poissons " (" The Fish Market " in English ), is a color monotype, a one-of-a-kind print made by painting on glass and then transferring the wet paint to a piece of paper.

* The Deposition ( Raphael ), an oil painting

* The Deposition ( Rogier van der Weyden ), an oil painting, c. 1435

* The Deposition from the Cross ( Pontormo ), an oil painting of 1528

Didier Diderot ( 1685 – 1759 ), a painting by an unknown artist.

In the black-and-white short The Image ( 1969 ), he played a ghostly boy who emerges from a troubled artist's painting to haunt him.

* 2007 – The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch ( 1904 ), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Café by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari.