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    The Love Letter (Dutch: De liefdesbrief) is a 17th-century genre painting by Jan Vermeer. The painting shows a servant maid commenting to her mistress...
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    Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. Completed in approximately 1657–1659, the painting is on display at the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden, which has...
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    Johannes Vermeer (/vərˈmɪər, vərˈmɛər/ vər-MEER, vər-MAIR, Dutch: [joːˈɦɑnəs fərˈmeːr]; see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December...
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  • love letters Biscuit roll, a crunchy and brittle biscuit snack, also known as love letters The Love Letter (Vermeer), a painting by Johannes Vermeer Love...
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    A love letter is an expression of love in written form. However delivered, the letter may be anything from a short and simple message of love to a lengthy...
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    The following is a list of paintings by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675). After two or three early history paintings, he concentrated...
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    The Astronomer (Dutch: De astronoom) is a painting finished in about 1668 by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is in oil on canvas with...
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    Woman with a Pearl Necklace (category Genre paintings by Johannes Vermeer)
    appears in The Love Letter and A Lady Writing a Letter. The painting is part of the collection of the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. Johannes Vermeer (1632- 1675)...
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    renowned painter, much better known than Vermeer. This painting is assumed to be a pair with Man Writing a Letter. The pair of paintings are regarded as some...
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    Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid (Dutch: Schrijvende vrouw met dienstbode) is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, completed in 1670–1671...
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  • Chasing Vermeer is a 2004 children's art mystery novel written by Blue Balliett and illustrated by Brett Helquist. Set in Hyde Park, Chicago near the University...
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    painter in the manner of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Metropolitan...
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    Writing a Letter and A Woman Sealing a Letter. Johannes Vermeer's influence is also reflected in the painting, such as the light from the left and the marble...
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    Vermeer in his absence. Several of Vermeer's paintings portray women writing or reading letters, including Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, The Love...
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    and tried. On the evening of 23 September 1971, a 21-year-old hotel waiter, Mario Pierre Roymans, stole Vermeer's Love Letter from the Fine Arts Palace...
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  • Emmy Andriesse (category Photographers from The Hague)
    misery during the occupation in the "winter of hunger" of 1944-1945. Volendam July 1945 The Love Letter (Vermeer) (Rijksmuseum July 1945) The Anatomy Lesson...
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  • Jon Jost's love of Vermeer paintings as a central organizing theme. This is one of his first films produced in 35mm. Vincent Canby wrote in The New York...
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  • Maria de Knuijt (category Johannes Vermeer)
    February 1681) was a patron of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. She provided support and financial assistance to Vermeer throughout his career. De Knuijt...
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    Girl Interrupted at Her Music (category Genre paintings by Johannes Vermeer)
    de muziek) is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. It was painted in the baroque style, probably between the years 1658 and 1659, using oil...
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    The Guitar Player is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), dated c. 1672. This work of art is one of Vermeer's final...
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    history. Vermeer's Love Letter uses a similar gilt panel. The Allegory and The Art of Painting differ markedly in style and purpose from Vermeer's other...
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  • Maria Thins (category Johannes Vermeer)
    Maria Thins (c. 1593 – 27 December 1680) was the mother-in-law of Johannes Vermeer and a member of the Gouda Thins family. She was raised in a devout...
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    46. The picture was, after Vermeer's death in 1676, in the possession of his widow, Catharina Bolnes; this picture, and "The Love Letter" in the Beit...
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    Han van Meegeren (category Johannes Vermeer)
    Göring purchased one of Meegeren's "Vermeers", which became one of his most prized possessions. Following the war, van Meegeren was arrested on a charge...
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    pointing to his canvas being the more original model that Vermeer quoted. Another signature work of Vermeer, The Love Letter, is also said to have been...
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  • Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) (category Cultural depictions of Johannes Vermeer)
    Holland, the novel was inspired by local painter Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. Chevalier presents a fictional account of Vermeer, the model...
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    Russborough House (category Houses in the Republic of Ireland)
    Ireland got back its Vermeer[dead link‍]". The Times, 31 July 2005. Retrieved on 24 May 2009. McGrath, Meadhbh (27 May 2016). "'I loved the locations, they...
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  • him in her dream. The Little Mermaid (1989), when Ariel first sees Prince Eric she instantly falls in love with him. All the Vermeers in New York (1990)...
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  • Charley Hill (detective) (category United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War)
    Writing a Letter with her Maid by Johannes Vermeer in Paris. He posed as an art dealer and traveled to a Belgian parking lot to retrieve the painting....
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    Johannes Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch were among the many painters specializing in genre subjects in the Low Countries during the 17th century. The generally...
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