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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
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Madlyn Millner Kahr

A Maid Asleep, Johannes Vermeer  Dutch, Oil on canvas
Johannes Vermeer
ca. 1656–57
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Francesco Colonna  Italian, Printed book with woodcut illustrations
Multiple artists/makers
December 1499
Francesco Colonna
Jacques Kerver
1546
Sloth (Desidia), from "The Seven Deadly Sins", Pieter van der Heyden  Netherlandish, Engraving
Multiple artists/makers
1558
Gilles Corrozet
Denys Janot
1543
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1608