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ghost soul, spirit OE.; disembodied spirit XIV. OE.
gāst = OS.
gēst (Du.
geest), (O)HG.
geist :- WGmc. *
ʒaista, which has been connected with Skr.
héḍa- anger. The sp. with
gh- is first recorded in Caxton's works and is there prob. due to Flem.
gheest; it became established late in XVI.
Hence
ghostly OE.
gāstliċ.
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IRISH SET CELEBRATES DUTCH ART
Newspaper article from: Evansville Courier & Press; 9/28/2003; ; 548 words
; ...stamps. The common thread in artist Gabriel Metsu's canvases is a letter. The works...table putting his thoughts on paper. Metsu's attention to detail is excellent...includes a maid and a small dog. Metsu (1629-1667) worked on both paintings...
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Paintings by Stubbs and Raeburn among items saved for the nation -- Howarth.
M2 Presswire; 5/3/2001; 700+ words
; ...by Stubbs, Raeburn, Tintoretto, Metsu and Cuyp have been accepted along...National Gallery) - a painting by Gabriel Metsu satisfying GBP1,316,510 of inheritance...Images of the Stubbs, Raeburn, Metsu, Crome, and Johnson are available...
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Culture Minister defers export of Van Musscher's most exceptional painting, Portrait of an Artist.
M2 Presswire; 5/23/2006; 700+ words
; ...Musscher. The influence of his teachers Metsu and Van Ostade is clearly visible...van Musscher received lessons from Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) in Amsterdam, and...show the influence of his teachers Metsu and Ostade, as well as Nicholas...
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Letter from Dublin.(Irish Art & Antiques Feature)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Girolamo Muziano (illustrated), Ludovici Carracci, Gabriel Metsu, Watteau, Mengs, Mulready, Degas, Modigliani, Rose...ter Borch (illustrated), de Hooch, Jan Steen and Metsu. The accompanying catalogue is written by the curator...
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Painting stolen by 'The General' is found; Detectives recover missing Rubens after 16 years.(News)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 8/8/2002; 700+ words
; ...Letter, the Portrait of Dona Antonia Zarate by Goya and Gabriel Metsu's Young Man Writing a Letter. Another was the Gainsborough...recovered in the years following the theft - the companion to Metsu's Young Man Writing a Letter was found in Istanbul...
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Arts: The great illusionist Vermeer's paintings are not a common sight for Spaniards. Now a major exhibition at Madrid's Prado museum is showing them that the Dutchman could blur reality like no other, says MICHAEL GLOVER
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/25/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...between two paintings, one by Vermeer, the other by Gabriel Metsu. In Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window...raises it from a fleeting instant to a timeless one. With Metsu, for all his great qualities, the effect is quite different...
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A collector's magic spell Small scale gets large at Old Masters saleAUCTIONS / London
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 4/20/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...l132,000 or so, brought l333,750.Paintings by Gabriel Metsu, who died at 40 in 1669, the same year as Rembrandt, are equally scarce. The great influence in Metsu's short career was Gerrit Dou, to whom he owes a love...
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The age of Rembrandt at the Queen's Gallery.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...These he personally ground, no doubt with the aid of his pupils, Godfried Schalcken, the elder Frans van Mieris and Gabriel Metsu. When he sat down at his easel, he waited for the dust to settle, then, still fearful, painted under a wooden...
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Market review: Maastricht staged what may have been its best fair ever, but Asia Week had mixed results in New York.(ART MARKET)(Maastricht, Netherlands)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...collector by Phillipe Denys). Arguably the finest Old Master at the fair was a smallish gem, an oil on panel by Gabriel Metsu, An Old Woman at a Meal (Fig. 8). Long in the collection of the Earl of Iveagh and his descendants, the painting...
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Dutch art and letters.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 1/1/2004; 700+ words
; ...Paintings in the Age of Vermeer, and contains forty-four paintings executed by such well-known artists as Jan Steen, Gabriel Metsu, and Johannes Vermeer. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Letter writing emerged as a subject in Dutch art about 1630 and reached...
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Gabriel Metsu
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gabriel Metsu , 1630?-1667, Dutch genre painter, b. Leiden. In 1657 he moved to Amsterdam, where he remained for the rest of his life...
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Metsu, Gabriel
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Metsu, Gabriel ( b Leiden, Jan. 1629; bur . Amsterdam...Houbraken says he was a pupil of Dou , but Metsu's early works are very different from...broadly rather than minutely painted. Metsu also painted portraits and still-lifes...
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Gabriel Metzu
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gabriel Metzu see Metsu, Gabriel .
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Dutch art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...interest in the rendering of homely domestic scenes and views of urban life, seen in the paintings of Pieter de Hooch, Gabriel Metsu, and Jan Steen. In the 1660s and 70s taste began to favor effects of wealth, elegance, and refinement. A tranquillity...
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