Willem De Sitter
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Willem De Sitter see Sitter, Willem de .
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Hendrick Goltzius and Willem van Tetrode: two related exhibitions have admirably demonstrated a refreshingly outward-looking side of renaissance Dutch art.
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; ... appreciation since his lifetime as one of the great northern printmakers (third only to Durer and Rembrandt), the sculptor Willem van Tetrode (c. 1525-80) remains an obscure figure beyond a small circle of bronze statuette connoisseurs. These pendant ... Goltzius all the complexities of this transitional moment in Dutch ...
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This is Haarlem's Willem Co ...
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; This is Haarlem's Willem Coymans (1623-1659), a prosperous Dutch gentleman cockier than most. His hauteur is unmistakable, and Frans Hals caught ... His name's a pun on "cowman." Hence the bovine heads on his coat- of-arms. The swagger of this portrait isn't just the sitter's. What conveys it is the swordplay of ...
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De Kooning's changes of climate. (artist Willem de Kooning)
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; ... language as they work and, most important, the nature of the internal dialogues that determine their choices. In the case of Willem de Kooning, I am dealing with an artist whose internal dialogue and its results were mimed by many artists of my generation ... deconstruction, when applied to the image of a woman, do ...
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Painted women.(Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning; C&M Arts, New York, New York)
Art in America; 11/1/1998; Nochlin, Linda; 4601 words
; ... one of a series of brightly colored portraits of the sitter done in that year in which Leal perceives Dora Maar's headgear ... from the marvelous, multicolored, cone-crowned hat, the sitter sports a snood (the hairnet), a jacket with epaulets which ... ramifications and roots of their representations of women ...
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Gorky's distant likenesses: a recent exhibition of Arshile Gorky's portraiture, the first show devoted solely to that subject, featured works ranging from precise, highly individuated drawings to paintings in which sitters were stripped of specific traits, gestures and even personality as the artist sought to "elevate" them to the ideal.
Art in America; 11/1/2002; Herrera, Hayden; 1210 words
; ... had moved from Cezanne to Matisse and Braque, and then to Picasso's Synthetic Cubism. He transformed his sitters in the same way that he transformed still-life objects, stripping them of their specificity in a search for ... Figures express no fleeting emotions. Instead, their mood is elegiac. They are never depicted in ...
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Football: HE STARTED IT.. HE CARRIED IT ON ..NOW HE'S IN ON THE ACT.(Sport)
The Mirror (London, England); 4/11/2005; 64 words
; MOVIE star Willem Dafoe started it all. His famous pose on the poster for hit film Platoon, to illustrate the horror of war, has sparked copycat ... last week. And Middlesbrough's Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink collapsed in mock agony as if he'd been gunned down after missing a sitter on Saturday.
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Van Schalkwyk seeks to give the Lions a cutting edge.(Sports)
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; ... the Sharks at Ellis Park on Saturday. Van Schalkwyk, a bench-sitter against Western Province at Newlands last weekend, has been ... Pretorius and Jacques CronjA[c] are replaced by Jannie Boshoff and Willem Alberts respectively, while tighthead prop Brian Mujati returns ... la Grange, Ryno Benjamin; Jaco van ...
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FOOTBALL: KORSTEN ON THE BOOKS!; O'Leary snaps up hot Dutch striker.(Sport)
The People (London, England); 2/21/1999; Smith, Phil; 830 words
; LEEDS BOSS David O'Leary signed up Dutchman Willem Korsten after he marked his home debut with a match-winning goal and a superb performance. Korsten was on loan from Vitesse ... they suffered at the end. Hasselbaink flashed a fierce shot across the face of goal just after the hour. Then he missed a sitter nine ...
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Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt against the Italian Renaissance & The Absence of Grace: Sprezzatura and Suspicion in Two Renaissance Courtesy Books.(Book Review)
Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/2003; Hampton, Timothy; 4494 words
; ... the character or temperament of the sitter. His presupposition, obviously enough ... seek some sort of personality in the sitter to begin with. Interiority can only ... this regard, the personality of the sitter is not something inherent, which needs ... construction of the face (215); Hals's Willem van ...
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Faust meets the info age.(Review)
The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 3/2/1999; Shewey, Don; 447 words
; ... Elizabeth LeCompte * Performed by the Wooster Group Best-known for launching the movie-star careers of Spalding Gray and Willem Dafoe, the Wooster Group is one of the world's foremost experimental theaters, famous for its high-powered performers and ... Markham's vaudeville routines or Arthur Miller's The Crucible ...
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... static universe containing matter but no motion. In the combined Einstein-de Sitter model, the universe is expanding at a decreasing rate that approaches zero. De Sitter's works in English include Kosmos (1932) and The Astronomical Aspect of the ...
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... Harmen Gerritsz van Rijn and the baker's daughter Neeltgen Willemsd van Zuytbroeck. For 7 years Rembrandt was a student at the ... Throughout his career he was his own most frequent model. Other sitters have been identified as members of his family, but this is ... Hoogstraten, Carel Fabritius, Abraham Furnerius, ...
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... the sky, called nebulae, are not within our own galaxy, but are separate galaxies at great distances from the Milky Way. Willem de Sitter of Leyden suggested that the universe began as a single point and expands without end. After studying the red shift (see ...
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