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...born in Rotterdam in 1629. He learned painting by apprenticeship there, probably to Nicolaes Berchem. By 1655 his name shows up on the rolls of the artists' guild in Delft. There he must have known the slightly younger Johannes Vermeer. Five years later, he was working in Amsterdam. He married and had seven children. None of his letters survive, and no drawings either. In 1684 he died in a madhouse. Whatever his affliction may have been, it left no interpretable mark on his work. Nothing is known about his personality, and it doesn't matter. And that's about...
Until De Hooch goes to Amsterdam, the work is all plain, in surface, substance and gesture. There's scarcely a hint of theatricality in the way his Delft models look. The figures in A Woman Drinking with Two Men, and a Serving Woman, circa 1658, are circumspect and static. True, the man on the left seems to be mimicking a violin player with two clay pipes, but it would be hard to imagine a more decorous drinking party, and the glass of wine the woman raises is more like a chalice than an attribute of Bacchus, let alone Venus. Their...
...country. Greek foreign minister Theodoros Pangalos said Tuesday Ocalan was "tricked into handing himself over" to Kenyan authorities on Monday, and had left the embassy compound with Kenyan officials. "He chose, despite our advice, to go with the Kenyan authorities to the airport," Pangalos said, ostensibly to fly to Amsterdam. Greece believes he was captured by the Turks en route...
...University licensed its athletic team logos from the '30s and '40s to Pangea, a company based in Amsterdam and owned by Lee and Dan Mirman, last fall. The company also has the right to produce similar lines of clothing from Yale, Cambridge and Oxford...
...said last week that he was approached twice by agents who asked up to $30,000 for a bloc of I.O.C. votes. "I was disappointed that the person was intimating that that went on," he said. "We dismissed it on the spot." Also resistant were officials from Toronto and Amsterdam, who reported similar shakedowns in the 1980s, as well as a Swedish hospitality hostess who alleged that she had been asked to have sex with an I.O.C. member--for the good of her country...