Delft is primarily known for its typically Dutch town centre ( with canals ); also for the painter Vermeer, Delft Blue pottery ( Delftware ), the Delft University of Technology, and its association with the Dutch royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

* Chasing Vermeer, with information about the book Chasing Vermeer and a click-and-drag pentomino board.

File: Johannes Vermeer ( 1632-1675 )-The Girl With The Pearl Earring ( 1665 ). jpg | Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665.

File: Jan Vermeer van Delft 008. jpg | Woman with a Pearl Necklace, by Jan Vermeer van Delft, 1665.

Cézanne ’ s Self portrait with a straw hat seems to him as incredibly pretentious, while Vermeer ’ s human still lives ( also, the Le Nain Brothers and Vuillard ) are the nearest to reflecting this not-self state.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer ( c. 1665 ).

The 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer often made lavish use of lapis lazuli, along with Carmine and Indian yellow, in his vibrant paintings.

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

The Vermeer Quartet performed well over two hundred works, including nearly all the " standard " string quartets, many lesser-known compositions, a number of contemporary scores, and various other works with guests.

The Vermeer was associated with Northern Illinois University as " resident artist faculty " since 1970, where they trained some of the most gifted young ensembles performing today, including the Shanghai String Quartet, Enso String Quartet, Avalon String Quartet, Pacifica String Quartet, and Arianna String Quartet.

Following their very first live radio broadcast of this work in 1988 over WFMT ( Chicago ), well over a hundred different speakers collaborated with the Vermeer, including some of the most renowned religious figures of our time.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ) a large four part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice and ensemble.

* 1666 in art-Death of Frans Hals, Jan Vermeer paints Girl with a Pearl Earring

Miss Gilchrist covered the Vermeer with her own painting depicting the destroyed pier copied from the postcard, to disguise it amongst others done by Cora.

Her dream was to sell the Vermeer to escape her dreary life with the capital to rebuild her beloved teashop, " the essence of gentility ", lost during the war to food shortages.

( e. g. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer )

In September 2004, in an interview with Tony Vermeer from The Sunday Telegraph, Windsor was the centre of controversy over an alleged breach of the Commonwealth Electoral Act.

Girl with a Pearl Earring is a painting by Johannes Vermeer.

Miller adopted a visual and design policy of sets and costumes inspired by great paintings of the era in which the play were written, though the style was dominated by the post-Shakespearean 17th century artists Johannes Vermeer and Rembrandt.

However, the other European collections include examples of the work of many of the great masters of western painting, including an important version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier Van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others.

Sir Alfred Beit bought the house in 1952 where he housed his own family's collection, comprising works by many great artists, including Goya, Vermeer, Peter Paul Rubens and Thomas Gainsborough.

The tender loving care that the Vermeer lavishes over every phrase of this unique score is something quite special to behold.

FrontPage was initially created by the Cambridge, Massachusetts company Vermeer Technologies, Incorporated, evidence of which can be easily spotted in file names and directories prefixed _vti_ in Web sites created using FrontPage.

His use of light and pictorial structure, using a spray-gun technique developed at the Royal College of Art, has seen Neiland likened to Georges Braque and Johannes Vermeer.

Korteling had been inspired by Johannes Vermeer and showed the young van Meegeren how Vermeer had manufactured and mixed his colours.

Vermeer was lavish in his choice of expensive pigments, including Indian Yellow, lapis lazuli, and Carmine, as shown in this vibrant painting.

Many forgeries still escape detection ; Han van Meegeren, possibly the most famous forger of the 20th century, used historical canvasses for his Vermeer forgeries and created his own pigments to ensure that they were authentic.

* Writing to Vermeer ( 1997 – 99 ) ( libretto by Peter Greenaway ) Opera for 2 children's voices, 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, female chorus, orchestra ( 7 winds, 2 horns, 2 trumpets + bass trumpet, 2 harps, 2 electric guitars, cimbalom, 2 pianos, on-stage harpsichord, 2 percussion, minimum 22 strings ), CD ( music by Michel van der Aa )

* Vermeer Pictures ( 2005 ) concert suite for orchestra from Writing to Vermeer ( arrangement by Clark Rundell )

The 17th century Dutch Masters, such as Johannes Vermeer, were known for their magnificent attention to detail.

The clay may also provide critical calcium for fetal development ( Vermeer ).

Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft in January 1996 specifically so that Microsoft could add FrontPage to its product line-up allowing them to gain an advantage in the browser wars, as FrontPage was designed to author for their own browser, Internet Explorer.

Catholics tended to keep to themselves in their own section of each town despite making one of the largest single denominations ( for example, the Catholic painter Johannes Vermeer lived in the " Papist corner " of the town of Delft ).

While the Baroque nature of Rembrandt's art is clear, the label is less use for Vermeer and many other Dutch artists.

This color was one of the favorites of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, the other being yellow.

The Astronomer ( Vermeer ) | The Astronomer by Johannes Vermeer ( c. 1668 )

This was also the age of Rubens, Rembrandt, Velázquez, and Vermeer.

* 1675 – Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter ( b. 1632 )

Buried here: Piet Hein, Johannes Vermeer, Anthony van Leeuwenhoek.

The guitar player ( c. 1672 ), by Johannes Vermeer

* 1632 – ( baptism ) Johannes Vermeer, Flemish painter ( d. 1675 )

They were also featured in Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer, which was published in 2003 and illustrated by Brett Helquist, as well as its sequels, The Wright 3 and The Calder Game.

He also spent a lot of time studying famous European paintings he admired, particularly the work of the Dutch artists Johannes Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch, and Rembrandt.

A notorious case was the signature of Johannes Vermeer on the fake " Supper at Emmaus " made by the art-forger Han van Meegeren.

Huxley had used Blake's metaphor in The Doors of Perception while discussing the paintings of Vermeer and the Nain brothers, and previously in The Perennial Philosophy, once in relation to the use of mortification as a means to remove persistent spiritual myopia and secondly to refer to the absence of separation in spiritual vision.

The Milkmaid ( Vermeer ) | The Milkmaid by Vermeer.