FIG 151 Jan Vermeer (van Delft) Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window, ca

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Description: Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window

TitleGirl Reading a Letter by an Open Window

Creator nameVermeer, Johannes

Creator nationality/cultureDutch

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1659

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions32 3/4 × 25 3/8 in. (83 × 64.5 cm)

LocationGemäldegalerie alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany

https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/415429

Accession numberGall 1336

SubjectsGenre painting, Dutch--17th centuryWindows in artDraperies in art

StatusShown after 2021 restoration, revealing the cupid in the upper portion of the painting

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Chapter 7: Genre Painting

Seymour Slive

Dutch Painting, 1600–1800

~~It is curious that most European languages use the French word genre, which means ‘kind’, ‘sort’, or ‘variety’, to categorize the type of painting that depicts scenes of everyday life. Precisely when or how this special usage became...

Author

Seymour Slive

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.123-176

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Chapter subject tags:Genre painting, Dutch--17th centuryVermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675Hooch, Pieter deSteen, Jan, 1626-1679

5. The Uncontained Image: The Politics of Warhol’s and Richter’s Blur

John J. Curley

A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War

Poisoning was a classic technique of Cold War intrigue—turning mundane objects into deadly assassins, from the poison-tipped umbrella that pricked a Communist dissident in London...

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John J. Curley

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.161-211

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00001.008

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Chapter subject tags:Appropriation (Art)Cold War in artAppropriation (Art)Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989Painting--Technique

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