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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

This title is out of print.

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About the authors

Madlyn Millner 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
Multiple artists/makers
December 1499

Discours du Songe de Poliphile

Francesco Colonna

Jacques Kerver

1546

Sloth (Desidia), from "The Seven Deadly Sins", Pieter van der Heyden Netherlandish, Engraving — Sloth (Desidia), from "The Seven Deadly Sins"
Multiple artists/makers
1558

Gilles Corrozet

Denys Janot

1543

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

Multiple artists/makers

ca. 1608

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