tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post1183889932667460343..comments2024-02-20T08:25:06.177-08:00Comments on Confessions of ignorance: Flemishseana grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-50794143779151708492015-04-05T21:34:17.280-07:002015-04-05T21:34:17.280-07:00Wow. I have no idea how this post popped to the to...Wow. I have no idea how this post popped to the top of your interest. It's a foreign country to me again at this point. But duly noted as to Vermeer. seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-63975890642990672912015-04-05T20:33:21.536-07:002015-04-05T20:33:21.536-07:00I should have commented on this at the time, but V...I should have commented on this at the time, but Vermeer was not Flemish. (Of course, you did put a question mark after his name.) Flemish art came to the fore before Dutch art did, though discussions day will often refer to "Netherlandish" painting, taking artists from Flanders and elsewhere in what became Belgium/Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-31790591972421024132010-08-25T23:33:43.222-07:002010-08-25T23:33:43.222-07:00Thanks. I definitely will. Because, quite obviousl...Thanks. I definitely will. Because, quite obviously, it will all be news to me.<br /><br />Also because in my somewhat intermittent reading of Jacques Barzun I am just now entering the Baroque period.seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-1686461767537337022010-08-25T23:24:47.393-07:002010-08-25T23:24:47.393-07:00Listen I've been watching this show on TV call...Listen I've been watching this show on TV called The Baroque and last night's episode covered the period when the Baroque went to Flanders. The presenter is a Polish English guy and the whole thing is wonderful. Try and catch it on PBS when it comes around.adriannoreply@blogger.com