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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Vermeer, Jan Also known as Jan van der Meer. 1632-1675. Dutch painter noted for his interior genre scenes, in which he used to great effect his mastery of lighting and color. His works include The Lacemaker (c. 1664).
WordNet 3.0
- n. Dutch painter renowned for his use of light (1632-1675)
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“As readers, we focus our concern or attention where we want, just as Proust focuses his on the little patch of yellow in Vermeer's painting.”
“Martin Vermeer of the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany published a study in December that projected a rise of 0. 75m to 1. 9m by 2100.”
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“Today, while the name Johannes Vermeer guarantees record crowds at any exhibition, that of his contemporary Gabriel Metsu is familiar mainly to serious devotees of Dutch Golden Age painting.”
“Delft's greatest painter was Johannes Vermeer, known as Vermeer of Delft, of whom I shall have much to say both at the Hague and”
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“It was only when the perpetrator, Han van Meegeren, was arrested near the end of the Second World War for selling another "Vermeer" to top-ranking Nazi official Hermann Göring that he confessed to having forged what many considered a masterpiece.”
“To the historian, even to the regular gallery visitor who tries to avoid the vagaries of fashion, it is all rather irritating: A recent editorial in The Burlington Magazine deplored the fact that certain painters, such as Vermeer and Louis Le Nain, had been rediscovered at the 'wrong' time, by critics who envisaged them as pioneers in the realist battles being waged in mid-nineteenth century France.”
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