Word: vermeere
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...sensational heist of old-master paintings, including a Vermeer and two Rembrandts, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston last week showed that there is still some respect for the law. All the thieves needed was two rented cops' uniforms and some flimflam at the security entrance on a Saturday night, and -- presto! -- in they walked. They ) immobilized the two night guards, ignored the museum's security system (which was not connected to the police precinct) and then spent two hours pulling paintings off the walls and out of their frames. Then exeunt: a clean getaway...
...ancient Chinese vase and 11 paintings and drawings by Rembrandt, Degas and Vermeer among other Old Masters taken early Sunday from the museum designed, filled and endowed by Isabella Stewart Gardner...
Solitude he wishes you as well, but not solitude without a frame. Choose creative times and places to be by yourself. In museums, for instance, where you may confront Vermeer or Velazquez eye to eye. On summer Sundays, too, when you may be alone with the city in its most clear and wistful light: the mirrored buildings angled like kitchen knives, the Hopper stores dead quiet, the city's poor dazed like laundry hung out to dry on their fire escapes. For contrast, seek real country roads, tire-track roads straddling islands of weeds and rolling out into white haze...
...schooling and kept their older children at home, whereas French and English children were ordinarily sent out as apprentices at age seven. With more light, more privacy and more children came a stronger sense of family life -- comfort is what we see in the interiors of De Hooch and Vermeer...
...transfer of several colleagues from English prisons to jails in Northern Ireland. The ransom was refused. Eight days later, the works were recovered. This time, seven of the less valuable paintings were found abandoned the afternoon of the theft. Still missing are masterpieces by Gainsborough, Goya, Rubens and Vermeer...