[DOC] [TLE] Vermeer's Delft Today - Essential Vermeer [PAR] Two dates crucial for the development of the city of Delft must be considered: ... 
Few of these building, which gave Delft its medieval character, withstood the fire. 
... View of Delft after the Explosion of the Gunpowder Arsenal in 1654, Herman 
Saftleven II ... The powder magazine contained some 90,000 pounds of 
gunpowder. [DOC] [TLE] Vermeer Finally Makes a Trip to Italy - The New York Times [PAR] Dec 3, 2012 ... ROME  Johannes Vermeer was considered in his home country to be an expert 
on Italian art. ... and a small output of two to three pictures a year for very few 
local patrons. ... powder magazine in Delft, which devastated a large part of the 
city ... After their marriage Vermeer and his wife lived in her mother's... [DOC] [TLE] Delft - Wikipedia [PAR] Delft is a city and a municipality in the Netherlands. It is located in the province of 
South Holland, to the north of Rotterdam and south of The Hague. Delft is known 
for its historic town centre with canals, Delft Blue pottery, the Delft University of 
Technology, painter Johannes Vermeer and scientist Antony van Leeuwenhoek, 
and its ... The Delft Explosion, also known in history as the Delft Thunderclap, 
occurred... [DOC] [TLE] Untitled Document - barry bauman conservation [PAR] (1) "Unfortunately, nothing is known about the first twenty-nine years of his life ... 
On the morning of October 12, 1654, one of Delft's largest powder magazines 
exploded. ... of the explosion devastated a large part of the city; its sound was 
heard in Texel, ... A few months after the explosion, van der Poel left Delft for 
Rotterdam. [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Vermeer and the Delft School" - Internet Archive [PAR] Genre Painting in Delft after 1650: De Hooch and Vermeer Walter Liedtke 130 6. 
... 1650 and died there in the catastrophic explosion of a gunpowder magazine in 
... and the fact that the Dutch city would commemorate its 750th anniversary in 
1996 ... Neither exhibition of five years ago closely resembles the present one in
... [DOC] [TLE] Johannes Vermeer - National Gallery of Art [PAR] tancy; a view of Delft, Vermeer's birthplace and home, with its tiled roofs, church 
spires, and turreted ..... that after that date he would have had to be present to 
attend to family affairs. ... dominated the city Paintings from the early 165*08 by 
Gerard Houckgeest (c. ...... sion of the Delft powder magazine in 16^4 (see page 
5*1). [DOC] [TLE] 4 OCT 12 - ART / 4 / 2DAY [PAR] During the few years he worked in Delft he had a great influence on the local ... 
work of Vermeer, the greatest of Delft painters, and Fabritius certainly influenced 
him, ... The disaster and its aftermath are recorded in a series of paintings by 
Egbert ... magazine (1654; 755x965pix, 80kb) and View of Delft after the 
Explosion of... [DOC] [TLE] Art  Page 12  That's How The Light Gets In [PAR] Egbert van der Poel, View of Delft after the Explosion of 1654 .... the way for other 
Delft painters such as de Hooch and Vermeer with their interest in ... in 1654, just 
a few months before his untimely death in the Delft powder magazine explosion. 
..... In The Soul of the City, painted in 1945, Chagall portrays himself as the artist... [DOC] [TLE] Rising from the Ashes: Fire Prevention as Social Transformation ... [PAR] He clearly believed this story about an important symbol of the city would hold a 
.... Van der Heyden's first year of work on firefighting, 1672, was also the ... (
Figure 2) and Cornelis de Bie's (Figure 3) views in the Amsterdam Museum. ..... of 
the wondrous and terrible explosion of the powder magazine that occurred on 12
... [DOC] [TLE] News Article Archive from March 27, 2015 - Wsj.com [PAR] Mar 27, 2015 ... Magazine  WSJ Puzzles .... Two Men Missing After Explosion in New York's East 
Village ... men remained

Question: Vermeer's view of this city dates from a few years after its devastating powder magazine explosion
Answer: Delft