Jan Vermeer

Jan on Cloud nine

Daily Star (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

JAN VERMEER painted himself into next year's Derby picture with a surprise victory in the Criterium International at Saint-Cloud yesterday.

Carberry in the last chance saloon

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

• Leading Irish trainer issues warning to top jockey • Rider was banned from taking mounts at Naas Noel Meade, who retains Paul Carberry as the No1 rider at his powerful yard in County Meath, said yesterday that he will offer the jockey all the support he can as the rider tries to address alcohol-related problems that saw him fail a breath test before racing at Naas on Saturday. However,...

O'Brien's Jan Vermeer in frame for Derby after masterly show

The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

Another day, another Ballydoyle colt gallops into a Classic market. Yesterday was the turn of Jan Vermeer, who gave Aidan O'Brien his third juvenile Group One prize in as many weekends with a comprehensive four-length success in the Critérium International at Saint-Cloud. The colt is now second-favourite for the Derby, behind stablemate St Nicholas Abbey, winner of the Racing Post Trophy.

Aidan O’Brien adds to his Derby armoury as Jan Vermeer wins Group One Criterium International at Saint-Cloud

Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

FOLLOWING St Nicholas Abbey’s victory in the Racing Post Trophy Aidan O’Brien looks to have another Derby candidate after Jan Vermeer led from start to finish in yesterday’s Group One Criterium International at Saint-Cloud.

Jan's the man for Aidan O'Brien

The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

AIDAN O'Brien's Jan Vermeer made every yard of the running to provide Ballydoyle with yet another juvenile Group One victory in the Criterium International at Saint-Cloud.

Jan the man for O'Brien

Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009

Aidan O'Brien unveiled his latest Derby candidate as Jan Vermeer made all to win the Group One Criterium International at Saint-Cloud.

Daily Chat 31/10/09

The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009

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Allegory

A R T H i s t o r i e s (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009

Jan Vermeer - Painter in his Studio or The Allegory of Painting, 1666 How do artists represent ideas? What kind of visual language might be required to personify abstract concepts like Love, Courage, Chastity and Wisdom? When you see a picture of an old man wearing a cloak and carrying an enormous scythe, what do you immediately think? Allegory is the term used to describe a figurative (non literal)...

Racing Post Trophy...get on Eddies "Each Way" NOW!

Barry Robson Racing (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009

St Nicholas Abbey and Coordinated Cut are among 22 runners remaining in a strong line-up for the Racing Post Trophy after the five-day declaration stage. The final Group One contest of the British season at Doncaster on Saturday often has a major bearing on the following year's Classics. Both Aidan O'Brien's St Nicholas Abbey and Peter Chapple-Hyam's Coordinated Cut are at the top of the Derby betting...

• Abbey tops 24 Trophy possibles - Skysports.com

Photo of the Day (8-26-09)

Gadling (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009

Filed under: Arts and Culture , Nicaragua , Photo of the Day , Central America Anyone who has traveled in a developing country may notice how this photo by TR Ryan captures perfectly the ingredients of every day village life. See it as a check list, if you will. Chickens? check. Goat? check. Plastic cup? check. Flip flops and bare feet? check and check. A bit of old rusty corrugate serving as a partial...

Great Painting #13 — Girl with a Pearl Earring

Listing Through Life (Free subscription) | 23/08/2009

Painted in 1666 by Jan Vermeer (and no, I haven't seen the movie). Vermeer lived in the Dutch town of Delft. Only 30-some of his paintings survive, most of them interior portraits of women pursuing some quiet activity. He generally used a lot of yellow, blue and gray in his works. Girl with a Pearl [...]

Steve Burt's Cease & Desist List [by Phoebe Putnam]

The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 30/07/2009

"Poets and book designers should stay away for at least the next five years from cover images by: Mark Rothko Vincent Van Gogh Jackson Pollock Barnett Newman and Jan Vermeer I thought that rule would go without saying until I...

Please Allow Me to Bend Your Ear About St. Martha, My Patron

Happy Catholic (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009

Christ in the House of Mary and Martha , Jan Vermeer It is no secret that Martha is my patron saint. I chose her because she is the patron saint of housewives but it soon became clear that it probably was God who chose to put us together. I relate to Martha in so many ways and her life stands as a measure of the person I work toward becoming ... a faithful servant who loves Jesus and is his good friend....

artline

~*Revue_Blanche*~ (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009

Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) a Dutch Baroque painter who “specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life”. The light, colours, interiors, details and air in his paintings thrill me. (collage) Visit Book Marketing Network Comments

lots of writing

Full Of Hope and Joy (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009

Yesterday, I mentioned I had gone for a little talk with the vicar, mainly about being baptised, and at the end mister vicar suggested that I write something about where God has been and still is, and also to go over my life and find anything that may be unresolved in my life, and try to work it out of my system. Well, true to my word, as I said I would do it, I started at work this morning (it was...