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Carel Fabritius
Carel Fabritius , 1622-54, Dutch painter; pupil and outstanding follower of Rembrandt. His early death in the explosion of a powder magazine at Delft cut short a career of great promise. Among his few remarkable works are Portrait of a Man (Rotterdam); The Goldfinch (The Hague); and View of... Read more |
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Michiel Janszen van Mierevelt
Michiel Janszen van Mierevelt , 1567-1641, Dutch portrait painter. He was court painter to the house of Orange, working chiefly in Delft and at The Hague. Mierevelt had many pupils and assistants, whose numerous, and usually inferior, works bear his name. His thousands of portraits included those of... Read more |
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Delft
Delft , city (1994 pop. 91,941), South Holland prov., W Netherlands. It has varied industries and is noted for its ceramics (china, tiles, and pottery) known as delftware. Founded in the 11th cent. and chartered in 1246, Delft was an important commercial center until superseded (17th cent.) by ... Read more |
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Simon de Vlieger
Vlieger, Simon de (b Rotterdam, c.1601; d Weesp, Mar. 1653). Dutch painter, mainly of marine subjects, active in Rotterdam, Delft, and Amsterdam. One of the outstanding marine painters of his period, he moved from stormy subjects in the manner of Porcellis to serene and majestic images that... Read more |
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Jan Pynas
Pynas, Jan (b Alkmaar, c.1582; bur. Amsterdam, 27 Dec. 1631) and Jacob (b Amsterdam, c.1592; d ?Delft, ?1650). Dutch painters, brothers. Jan visited Italy c.1605–7 (he was there at the same time as Lastman) and again about ten years later. On stylistic grounds it is likely that Jacob too... Read more |
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Paulus Potter
Potter, Paulus (bapt. Enkhuizen, 20 Nov. 1625; bur. Amsterdam, 17 Jan. 1654). Dutch painter and etcher of animals in landscapes, active in Delft, The Hague, and Amsterdam. His best-known work, the life-size Young Bull (1647, Mauritshuis, The Hague), was in the 19th century one of the most famous of... Read more |
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delftware
delftware The earliest delftware was a faience, a heavy, brown earthenware with opaque white glaze and polychrome decoration, made in the late 16th cent. Some of the earliest imitations of Chinese and Japanese porcelain were made at Delft in the 17th cent. Delft was important as a pottery center... Read more |
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van (b. Delft, Netherlands, 24 October 1632;b. Delft, 26 August 1723), natural sciences, microscopy. Leeuwenhoek was the son of Philips Thoniszoon, a basket-maker, and Margriet Jacobsdochter van den Berch. He took his surname ( Read more |
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Leonaert Bramer
Bramer, Leonaert (b Delft, 24 Dec. 1596; bur. Delft, 10 Feb. 1674). Dutch genre and history painter. He worked mainly in Delft, but he travelled widely in Italy and France, 1614–28, and drew on a variety of influences for his most characteristic paintings—small nocturnal scenes with... Read more |
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Balthasar van der Ast
Ast, Balthasar van der (b Middelburg, c.1594; bur. Delft, 19 Dec. 1657). Dutch still-life painter, the brother-in-law of Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, with whom he trained in Middelburg. He worked in Utrecht (where he influenced the early work of Jan Davidsz. De Heem) before settling in Delft... Read more |
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Vermeer, Jan
...light and colour with enormous delicacy, as in the superb landscape, View of Delft (c.1660). Towards the end of his life, Vermeer began to paint in a heavier manner and his work lost some of its mysterious charm.http://www.nga.gov... |
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Researchers at Delft University of Technology Target Optical Research.
...a maximum in a continuous manner," wrote S.B. Raghunathan and colleagues, Delft University of Technology...contact S.B. Raghunathan, Delft University of Technology...Science, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, Netherlands. Keywords... |
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Technical University Delft Library Selects Collexis Basic Search.
...Researcher, explained, "TU Delft Library is using the Collexis...information in a more efficient manner." Bill Kirkland, Collexis CEO stated, "Adding TU Delft Library to our growing list...customers is very exciting. TU Delft Library lines up with Erasmus... |
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Delft residents have to move after losing eviction appeal bid.(News)
...and AZIZ HARTLEY THE 1 600 Delft residents - some heavily pregnant...occupying the houses, the manner in which the government allocated houses built in Delft and that the court should...of backyard dwellers from Delft and surrounding areas invaded... |
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End of road for Delft families as appeal bid fails.(News)
...1 000 incomplete houses in Delft have been refused leave to...occupying the houses, the manner in which the government allocated houses built in Delft, and that the court should...of backyard dwellers from Delft and surrounding areas invaded... |
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New nanotechnology data have been reported by researchers at Delft University...
...to use them in a functional manner in molecular electronics...Kocherzhenko and colleagues, Delft University of Technology. The...contact F.C. Grozema, Delft University of Technology, Dept...Julianalaan 126, NL-2628 BL Delft, Netherlands. Publisher contact... |
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Last chance to save a painting by Jan Steen The Burgher of Delft and his...
...her right hand in a pleading manner while the boy is holding his...scene as the Oude Gracht in Delft, the city's most prestigious...during this brief sojourn in Delft. Born in Leiden, he moved to Delft in 1654. Steen stayed in Delft... |
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Frost & Sullivan Presents the 2006 CEO of the Year Award for Medical Imaging...
...vital role in increasing Rogan-Delft's global profile in medical...select markets in a consequent manner, rather than tap multiple markets...prove beneficial to Rogan-Delft. This approach is reflective...company. This will allow Rogan-Delft to win projects, ... |
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Research from Delft University of Technology has provided new information...
...components in a straightforward manner directly to GPS observables...Amirisimkooei and colleagues, Delft University of Technology. The...contact A.R. Amirisimkooei, Delft University of Technology, Delft Institute Earth Observat & Space... |
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Scientists at Delft University of Technology Target Stainless Steel.
...wrote W. Xu and colleagues, Delft University of Technology. The...strength and cost in an integrated manner." Xu and colleagues published...information, contact W. Xu, Delft University of Technology, Faculty...Kluyverweg 1, NL-2629 HS Delft, NETHERLANDS. The ... |
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Research conducted at Delft University of Technology has updated our...
...transformations in a fine-grained manner. The normalization strategy...wrote Z. Hemel and colleagues, Delft University of Technology. The...information, contact E. Visser, Delft University of Technology, Software Engineering Research Group, Delft, ... |
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