The Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer

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bread, milk, table, mirror, window, wall, bucket, pitcher, basket, apron, tablecloth, maid, pumpernickel, corsage, baseboard, skirt, heating pad, drapery, big chest, platter, crock (dishware), coif

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Rijksmuseum
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The Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer
The Milkmaid — Johannes Vermeerc. 1660

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View of Houses in Delft, Known as The Little Street, Johannes Vermeer
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Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, Johannes Vermeer
Woman in Blue Reading a LetterJohannes Vermeerc. 1663Rijksmuseum
Girl with the Red Hat, Johannes Vermeer
Girl with the Red HatJohannes Vermeerc. 1669National Gallery of Art
Woman Holding a Balance, Johannes Vermeer
Woman Holding a BalanceJohannes Vermeerc. 1664National Gallery of Art
Study of a Young Woman, Johannes Vermeer
Study of a Young WomanJohannes Vermeerca. 1665–67Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Within fifty years of c. 1660

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The Denial of Saint Peter, Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)
The Denial of Saint PeterCaravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)1610Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Isometric View of Torra de Ottaggio, Jacques Callot, French, 1592–1635
Isometric View of Torra de OttaggioJacques Callot, French, 1592–16351610–35Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Planometric View of Gani, Jacques Callot, French, 1592–1635
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Planometric View of Oran, Algeria, Jacques Callot, French, 1592–1635
Planometric View of Oran, AlgeriaJacques Callot, French, 1592–16351610–35Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Planometric View of Mazachebir, Jacques Callot, French, 1592–1635
Planometric View of MazachebirJacques Callot, French, 1592–16351610–35Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Project for a Wall Painting, Unknown
Project for a Wall PaintingUnknownca. 1610Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Dedication page, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book), Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618
Dedication page, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 16181610Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Project for a Frieze, Unknown
Project for a FriezeUnknown1610–1630Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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  1. 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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