#Microsoft dart 1806 archive

We can also edit what kind of an icon it looks like. And it drops the place marker in the ocean. So why don't we put in the location of the Japanese earthquake? There. And the easiest thing I think to do- is to just type in the latitude and longitude of the place marker that you want to set. If you've got something you've already made, then you will be shown a menu with those. If you've never made a map before, then you'll just get a welcome screen. And one of the things you can click on is My Maps. Then, if you click this little hamburger over here, and you get a menu. Luckily, small details (a commemorative plaque or stone, a historic inscription, sculpture or sign at a house) have survived providing us with further clues.PRESENTER: So when you first get to Google Maps, it'll probably present you with a map of the place where you are, if it knows where you are. In addition, numerous modern archaeological investigations have uncovered sections of old foundation walls, cellars, graveyards or filled-up canals which make to correctly locate or sometimes a sketch a rough reconstruction of the floor plan of some former convent or public house. And a surprising number of the street names have remained the same. It is still possible to walk through Delft guiding ourselves with a seventeenth-century city map. 1 Furthermore, thanks to Delft's location between Oude Delft canal and the river Schie divided by a number of smaller canals ( grachten), Delft's city plan has not very much changed in the course of the centuries.

#Microsoft dart 1806 archive

However, enough historical documentation have survived (the Delft Municipal Archive houses historical maps, books and protocols) which allow us make reasonable comparisons in many cases. This often makes an exact location of a particular building difficult to ascertain, if not impossible. Houses began to be given civic numbers in 1806 when Napoleon's brother Louis Bonaparte became king of the short-lived Kingdom of Holland. Houses were usually distinguished by names inscribed on signs hung outside a house or business or a given activity that went on inside and was common knowledge to Delft's citizens (i.e the Three Hammers at the house at Beestenmarkt where Vermeer's father Reynier grew up). (with ample database) Schutterij and the Doelen: Vermeer's military service Oude and Nieuwe Kerk of Delft House of Pieter de Hooch Kamer VOC Oostpoort & Paardenmarkt * Gallery of 17th-and 18th-century paintings and drawings of Delft * Photographic impressions of DelftĪlthough a number of seventeenth-century Delft facades have been handed down to us, we must remember that in Vermeer's time houses had no numbers. Vermeer's Delft today Vermeer's 'View of Delft' Beestenmarkt: the origins of Vermeer's grandparents Voldersgracht: Vermeer's birthplace Mechelen, where Vermeer grew up: from 1582 to its demise in 1885 The hidden Catholic church of Delft: Vermeer's Catholicism Vermeer's marriage at Schipluiden Oude Langendijk: Vermeer's house & studio Detailed house-by-house study of Vermeer's neighborhood All these pictures are characterized by a sensitive rendering of space, light and atmosphere, and a precision that gives them a sense of untroubled stillness and order. It was during this Delft period that he painted his interiors, favoring two or three figures in a domestic setting, and also his courtyard and garden scenes. 4Īround 1667 De Hooch moved to Amsterdam and the quality of his work-attempts to depict fashionable society in luxurious surroundings-declined sharply.ĭe Hooch worked mainly in Delft, where he seems to have influenced Vermeer, though his colors are warmer and softer than Vermeer's silvery tones. By that year Justus was close to financial ruin. In an inventory of Justus la Grange paintings of 1655 there were 66 paintings, of which 4 by Lievens and 11 by De Hooch. The term 'servant' may imply that De Hooch exchanged paintings for receiving room and board. Justus had residences in Leiden, Delft and around The Hague. De Hooch arrived in Delft before 1652, joining Justus' household on Oude Delft number 161 as painter and servant ( dienaar). Pieter d e Hooch was born near Rotterdam and was a pupil of Nicoales Berchem (1620–1683), probably in Haarlem.