The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 6 (1972)

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 6

"Vermeer's Girl Asleep: A Moral Emblem"

Kahr, Madlyn Millner

1972

18 pages

This title is out of print.

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About the authors

Madlyn Kahr

Met Art in Publication

A Maid Asleep, Johannes Vermeer Dutch, Oil on canvas — A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer
ca. 1656–57

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Francesco Colonna Italian, Printed book with woodcut illustrations — Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Francesco Colonna
December 1499

Discours du Songe de Poliphile

Francesco Colonna

1546

Sloth (Desidia), from the series The Seven Deadly Sins, Pieter van der Heyden Netherlandish, Engraving — Sloth (Desidia), from the series The Seven Deadly Sins
Pieter van der Heyden
1558

Gilles Corrozet

1543

Amorum Emblemata / Emblems of Love with verses in Latin, English and Italian

Otto van Veen

ca. 1608