Articles related to "Delft"

The hearth calls to mind the old image of the family's center. Today's fireplace can be the center of the room's design.

Art tile, with its timeless appeal, is well suited to home design. Used as wainscoting to dress up a hallway or used to tile a backsplash, art tile can work in any space.

Test your knowledge of these 17th-century Dutch painters and absorb perhaps-obscure facts about them.

His artwork - forgotten for 200 years until discussed by art critic Thoré-Bürger in 1866 - has earned him respect as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.

Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch painter of the Baroque era whose specialization in depicting ordinary scenes in domestic interior made him a successful businessman.

A fireplace in a formal living space needs to reflect its surroundings. Traditional fireplace designs can enhance, and blend in with, nearly any space.

Vogelpark Avifauna in Alphen aan den Rijn in South Holland is the largest bird park in the Netherlands and a great day trip from Den Haag, Gouda, Delft, and Rotterdam.

Learn how Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, an uneducated Dutch merchant, discovered the microscopic world of animalcules and forever changed biological science.

The Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery in The Hague is a top art collection with famous paintings by Dutch masters including Vermeer, Steen, Brueghel, and Rembrandt.

A look at the life and painting techniques of Johannes Vermeer, painter of "Girl with a Pearl Earring."

Read about these 17th- through 19th-century works of art and the world museums where they can be visited today.

Amsterdam luxury accommodations range from palatial digs overlooking the River Amstel to restored 17th-century canal houses with all the conveniences of the 21st century.

If you want to enjoy homemade Christmas pudding this year, then try this classic recipe which mixes dried fruit, apples, nuts - and a slug of Jamaica rum.

To commemorate Henry Hudson's voyage from the Netherlands to New York the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is lending Johannes Vermeer's The Milkmaid to the Met Museum.

Amsterdam is a traveler's delight, offering a mélange of arts, culture and nightlife in a city blessed with efficient public transport and links to the rest of Europe.

Home decorating couldn't be easier with these ideas. Blue is the safest colour to use as it always works well and has the added bonus of creating a stress-free zone.

Blue flowers and spring naturally go together, so begin your spring bulb display with as many blue flowers as possible.

Blue marble, blue granite and onyx are exotic stones available in tiles and slabs for kitchen and bathroom design. Using them can turn a project into something unique.

Among the wealth of physics discoveries in 2008 editors and science writers of the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society has selected ten.

There are numbers of fragrant flowers which can be used for wedding bouquets; scented flowers such as Rose, Hyacinth and Lily-of-the-Valley make highly fragrant bouquets.

Opened December 9 with the silent movie 'The Secret of Delft' from 1917, the Jewish Film Festival this year honors Jewish filmmakers in Holland over the last century.

Destroyed at the peak of its prosperity by an earthquake, parts of sevententh century Port Royal remain preserved under the sea.

The Dutch Golden Age of the 17th Century was brought about in part by religious toleration and successful trade with the rest of Western Europe.

Wilhelmina's popularity helped her people through two world wars and insured stability in the twentieth century.

Steadman discusses speculation and controversy surrounding claims that the great seventeenth-century Dutch artist, Johannes Vermeer, used the camera obscura.