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Peter Van Delft works on the sixth floor of a large dark stone building on Astor Place on New York's lower east side. These are the offices of District 65, a union arm of the Distributive Workers of America, and Van Delft is a general organizer, university division...
Semprun's New Wave spy novel, accordingly, is sometimes hallucinatory, often irritating, always intricate. The opening is a microscopic examination of a scene by a Dutch canal bank. As Semprun's camera slowly pulls back it is Vermeer's View of Delft, hanging on its wall of the Mauritshuis in The Hague where it is being looked at by a man who thinks of himself as a spy, thinks of himself as being shadowed, and who may be a Spaniard, a businessman named Ramon Mercader, which happens also to be one of the names by which history...
Last year's renovations included the installation of a circular room lined with bookcases and carpeted in red, the engagement of a specialist in the repair of Delft tile, and the restoration of some of the Castle's leaded glass windows, Rivaldo said. "We also bought a lot of wine," he added...
...Delft, today best known for its china, was then the home of many other important painters-notably Jan Steen, who recorded a lustier side of Dutch life, and Carel Fabritius, one of Rembrandt's pupils who may have been Vermeer's teacher. In fact, a local bard, on the occasion of Fabritius' early death, portrays Vermeer, then only 22, as the phoenix who would rise to greatness in his place...
...eleven children a bread bill of 617 guilders, for which two paintings were given in payment. For all that, it seems Vermeer enjoyed some celebrity while he lived: a French nobleman recorded in his diary in 1663 that he had made a special trip from The Hague to Delft just to visit Vermeer's studio. No self-portrait of Vermeer as such exists, although scholars believe that the figure at the easel in Allegory of Painting very likely represents the Delft master himself...