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...Close on his heels is Lyme Regis fossil hunter Mary Anning, who grumbles that she’s only been to London once and why aren’t we at the British Museum instead, where she may have some fossils on display?...
...Certainly Kenwood has masterpieces — Vermeer, Rembrandt, Hals, and in direct competition Gainsborough’s feathery enchantment “Mary, Countess Howe” — which far outshine his, but its setting places him in...
...From £155; gurnardshead.co.uk Amsterdam’s Vermeer blockbuster We first got wind of the Rijksmuseum’s ambitious Vermeer show over a year ago, and are hard-pressed to say whether it or Harry Styles is the...
...All those years of black bag work for CIA and the final place I ever hit was also the nicest, even if I didn’t ever confirm the rumoured Vermeer....
...Forerunners include Vermeer, though the light that filters through his salons is less humble than John’s beams....
...Sometimes they’re prostitutes; other times they are the Virgin Mary, including one by Dieric Bouts (1465) in which mother and child are sitting framed by a window....
...ellipses of umbrella pines with bobbleheads and copper trunks, and a single-track railway that groans under the weight of a simple train — the one I see has just a couple of carriages, painted a Virgin Mary...
...Being exactly 40 years older, to improve his photography I would advise Mr Petitt to study the great masters and mistresses of Art for their composition and genius — Diego Velázquez, Mary Cassatt, JMW Turner...
...In 1865, Mary Mapes Dodge, an author who had never visited the Netherlands, published the children’s novel Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates....
...Vermeer, where Mr Andringa is chief executive, imports cabs assembled in its plant in Tianjin, China, that it uses for its drilling vehicle made in Iowa....
...Some, too, are imaginative variations on paintings by Vermeer and Raphael shown to the children in photographs brought by Dicker-Brandeis....
...Jason Andringa started the year in bullish mood — and with good reason....
...Still, for Mary Andringa, chair of the board of Vermeer Corporation, a family-owned manufacturing company based in Pella, Iowa, the strong dollar’s impact remains very real....
...Today, Caravaggio’s pre-eminence is axiomatic: no one questions Longhi’s assertion that “Ribera, Vermeer, La Tour and Rembrandt could never have existed without him....
...Vermeer: The Complete Works, by Karl Schütz, Taschen, RRP£99.99/RRP$150 There will never be an exhibition of all Vermeer’s 35 surviving works, scattered across museums worldwide; this catalogue with spectacular...
...She took painting lessons to research “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, the 17th-century masterpiece by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer....
...The next major painting Vermeer produced, in 1654-55, is even bigger and more imposing. He would never again produce anything as large as this image of “Christ in the House of Martha and Mary”....
...Mary Andringa, another member of the president’s export council, makes the case that international operations help companies export from their US plants....
...ViennaJohannes Vermeer: The Art of Painting On Tuesday, the Kunsthistorisches Museum opens an exhibition focused on a single painting: Vermeer’s “The Art of Painting”....
...The family lived in London, Paris and Brussels, and Mark, an only child, attended St Mary’s Town and Country School, a progressive school in Swiss Cottage, for two years....
...Like Vermeer and William Blake in Pearl Earring and Burning Bright, Anning and Philpot are real historical figures, blurred into fiction by Chevalier’s imagination....
...Mary Andringa, president and chief executive of Vermeer Manufacturing, a directional drill manufacturer in Pella, Iowa, says the last recession taught her a harsh lesson about the need to reduce inventory...
...Lisa Jardine is centenary professor of Renaissance studies at Queen Mary, University of London....
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