Woman Holding a Balance — Johannes Vermeer, c. 1664

Woman Holding a Balance, Johannes Vermeer

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Iconclass: 41A71141D2661:25D13(GOLD)31D15adult woman48C514231A511mirror41A763341D2661146B331141D221(SLUIERKAP)24A8sunlight54A43Temperance, Moderation; 'Misura' (Ripa)
Wikidata depicts: woman, table, window, weighing scale, painting

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Credit: Widener Collection
Licence: CC0-1.0
Evidence: NationalGalleryOfArt/opendata: object 1236 has an open-access image (published_images.csv, openaccess=1, uuid c948cf32-e6c7-41a0-a053-0ad0562960c4); NGA's open data is CC0 (read 2026-08-27)
Record: https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.1236.html

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Arcana arcanissima hoc est hieroglyphica Aegyptio-Graeca, vulgo necdum cognita, ad demonstrandam falsorum apud antiquos deorum, dearum, heroum, animantium & institutorum pro sacris receptorum, originem, ex uno Aegyptiorum artificio, quod aureum animi & corporis medicamentum peregit, deductam, unde tot poetarum allegoriae, scriptorum narrationes fabulosae & pertotam encyclopaediam errores sparsi clarissima veritatis luce manifestantur, suaeque tribui singula restituuntur, sex libris exposita, Maier, Michael — Arcana arcanissima hoc est hieroglyphica Aegyptio-Graeca, vulgo necdum cognita, ad demonstrandam falsorum apud antiquos deorum, dearum, heroum, animantium & institutorum pro sacris receptorum, originem, ex uno Aegyptiorum artificio, quod aureum animi & corporis medicamentum peregit, deductam, unde tot poetarum allegoriae, scriptorum narrationes fabulosae & pertotam encyclopaediam errores sparsi clarissima veritatis luce manifestantur, suaeque tribui singula restituuntur, sex libris expositaMaier, Michael1614Stiftung der Werke von C.G.Jung, Zürich, online

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Automaton clock in the form of Urania, Muse of Astronomy, Paullus Schiller — Automaton clock in the form of Urania, Muse of AstronomyPaullus Schillerca. 1620–30Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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Also at National Gallery of Art

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Figure of a Man, after Polidoro da Caravaggio — Figure of a Manafter Polidoro da CaravaggioNational Gallery of Art

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Tribute Money, after Sir Peter Paul Rubens — Tribute Moneyafter Sir Peter Paul RubensNational Gallery of Art

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principles of art history · heinrich wolfflin
Quite analogous is the development of the theme of the painter and his model, a subject known to earlier art as St. Luke and the Virgin. If we wish to draw the comparison here between northern pictures, and at the same Palma Vecchio PAINTING 77 Tintoretto time take a rather greater interval of time, we can contrast with Vermeer’s * baroque schema the plane schema of a painter of the school of Dirk Bouts,* where the principle of the stratification of the picture in parallel planes is carried out—in the
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