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The Root of Wild Madder.(Brief article)(Book review)
California Bookwatch
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January 1, 2007
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The Root of Wild Madder
Brian Murphy
Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of Americas, New York NY 10020
0743264193 $25.00 www.simonsays.com
Devotees of the Persian carpet have had numerous carpet buyer's guides and histories in the past, but ROOT OF WILD MADDER; CHASING THE HISTORY, MYSTERY, AND MORE OF THE PERSIAN CARPET is something different: a journey which follows the Persian carpet from remote Afghanistan and Iranian villages where they're often woven by young girls to bazaars which trade them, artists which ...
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Interior with a Woman at the Clavichord (c.1665) ; GREAT WORKS ++ Emanuel de Witte Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...emphasising "for ever", it's these continuous sorts of activity that Keats dwells on. And pictures may do likewise. Emanuel de Witte's painting Interior with a Woman at the Clavichord could hardly be further from Keats's urn. Instead of an outdoor...
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Food, glorious food
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...a Virginal, painted by Dutchman Emanuel de Witte (1617-92), before it is returned...will cook meals. But back to De Witte, who made a precarious living out...genre scenes and landscapes, De Witte was known as a leading architectural...
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Spinoza's leftovers
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...the Portuguese synagogue and the Jewish cemetery: printmaker Romeyne de Houghe, church (and synagogue) painter Emanuel Witte, and landscapist Jacob van Ruisdael. The latter's cemetery paintings are seen as a form of vanitas canvases. Nadler...
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Rembrandt's Jews.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Shofar
; ...color plates are two paintings by Emanuel De Witte (Interior of a Church and Interior...unwittingly contributed--like de Witte with his Synagogue, de Hooghe with...synagogue in Regensburg and "de Witte's respectful portrayals of the...
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Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft, with Open Grave. (Poetry).
Magazine article from: Poetry
; ...INTERIOR OF THE OUDE KERK, DELFT, WITH OPEN GRAVE Emanuel de Witte 1653[?] And you, friend, in a footnote, thanked...a fictional composite, based on several works by Emanuel de Witte, Hendrick van Vliet, and Gerard Houckgeest. The...
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Vermeer exhibit a lesson in use of space, light.(Arts & Entertainment)(Art)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...such as Vermeer, Carel Fabritius, Pieter de Hooch and Emanuel de Witte made pictures for this kind of taste. Thirty artists...arts round out the show. Vermeer, Fabritius and De Witte extensively explored optics and effects of light, often...
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Carel Fabritius.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...period of artistic growth in the city. Fabritius influenced the work of Pieter de Hooch, Johannes Vermeer, and Emanuel de Witte. Fabritius is best known for his masterful handling of illumination and for his proficiency in many styles: he was...
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Museum show recreates Vermeer's Delft.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...show are views of whitewashed church interiors, a specialty of 17th century Dutch artists, by Gerard Houckgeest and Emanuel de Witte, and detailed genre paintings showing disheveled Delft citizenry carousing and gambling by the renowned Pieter de...
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently announced that it has received 11 major 17th-century paintings from the Dutch "Golden Age," donated by LACMA trustee Hannah L. Carter and her late husband, Edward W. Carter.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...donated by LACMA trustee Hannah L. Carter and her late husband, Edward W. Carter. Among the highlights of the collection are canvases by Jacob van Ruisdael, Pieter Saenredam, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Emanuel de Witte and Franz Post.
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MUSEUM SHOW RECREATES VERMEER'S DELFT
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...show are views of whitewashed church interiors, a specialty of 17th century Dutch artists, by Gerard Houckgeest and Emanuel de Witte, and detailed genre paintings showing disheveled Delft citizenry carousing and gambling by the renowned Pieter de...
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