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Offers information on the Dutch painter Dirck van Baburen (c.1590-1624), presented as part of the WebMuseum, Paris Web site of Nicholas Pioch. Includes a biographical sketch of van Baburen and provides an image and description of his painting entitled "Concert."

As part of WebMuseum, Paris, Nicolas Pioch provides a biographical sketch of the Dutch painter Abraham van Beyeren (1620 or 1621-1690). Van Beyeren is remembered for his still-life paintings. Pioch provides an image of and commentary on Van Beyeren's painting entitled "Still-Life with Fruit." Pioch lists the sources used.

Features information on Flemish painter Hugo van der Goes (circa 1440-1482), regarded as the greatest Netherlandish painter of the second half of the 15th century. Contains a biography and includes images, titles, descriptions, and location information for some of his works, including "The Portinari Altarpiece--The Adoration of the Shepherds" (1475).

Features Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641). Contains a biography of van Dyck and notes that from 1632 until his death he was in England--except for visits to the Continent--as painter to Charles I, from whom he received a knighthood. Includes an image of his self-portrait, which is located in the Pinakothek in Munich, Germany.

Features information on the Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891), presented as part of the WebMuseum, Paris Web site of Nicolas Pioch. Contains an image and description of his painting entitled "The Church of Overschie." Most of the site information is provided in French.

Presents a brief biographical sketch of Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634), presented as part of the WebMuseum, Paris Web site of Nicolas Pioch. Notes that Avercamp painted mainly winter landscape scenes and offers a color photograph of his painting titled "Winter Landscape."

The A-to-Z encyclopedia offers entries related to prostitution and the sex industry, past and present, worldwide (mostly in the West) and in the United States. An introduction overviews the scope of prostitution from the earliest historical records, including the Bible.

This richly documented study of copyright in sixteenth-century Venice and Rome provides valuable new information about the "privilegio" and the printers, engravers, painters, mapmakers, and others who used it to protect their commercial interests in various types of printed images.