Cat

Cute :)

Bookmark of the series Book-Tails: http://www.thatcompanycalledif.com/product/177/Book-Tails-Bookmarks

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Beautiful Poppies

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From art museum in Dordrecht, Netherlands

Dordrechts Museum is an art museum in Dordrecht, Netherlands. The museum was founded in 1842 and has a collection of artists of the last 400 years.

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From Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Golden Birds.
Brocade paper,Germany,second half 18th century.
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/?lang=en

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Collection of Islamic Art. From Nieuwe Kerk (Amsterdam).

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"Royal Delft " Museum bookmark

The Koninklijke Delftsche Aardewerkfabriek [Royal Delft Pottery] "De Porceleyne Fles Anno 1653" N.V. (Royal Delft) is the leading producer of authentic Delft Blue ornamental earthenware and modern earthenware. The company is not only active as a knowledge centre for ceramics but also receives over 140,000 visitors annually from all over the world who come to view the traditional production process of Delft earthenware.
The building located on the Rotterdamseweg houses the company museum, the factory, the showroom and the Brasserie.
http://www.royaldelft.nl/static.asp?myid=64&menu=4

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Ornamental bookmark for the Khamse by Nizami Ganjavi. Hermitage Museum.Amsterdam.

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The rose garden of love. De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam .

Double page from the Gulshan-i ‘Ishq
(the rose garden of love) by the Sufi poet Nusrati
India, Hyderabad (the Deccan), circa 1710
Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper
MSS 640.1, MSS 640.2
The Gulshan-i ‘Ishq is an allegorical romance relating the progress of King Bikram towards enlightenment and the birth of a child to his hitherto barren queen. The paintings are of two types: those illustrating the narrative, which are bolder and larger in size, such as the despondent queen in her private apartments; and marginal vignettes, which are virtual microcosms of daily life at court, in the city and in the countryside.

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Collection of Islamic Art. From Nieuwe Kerk (Amsterdam).

Carpet with star medallions
Western Anatolia, Ushak (or Uşak), late 15th or early 16th century
Wool pile on a wool foundation
TXT 213

Carpets of this size were mostly manufactured for export to Europe. A case in point is the fresco depicting Henry VIII by Hans Holbein, executed for the Palace of Westminster in 1535, the cartoon of which shows him standing on such a ‘star Ushak’ carpet.

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Girl with an Indian headdress

 bookmark are from
Nieuwe Kerk (Amsterdam).
The Nieuwe Kerk ("New Church") is a 15th-century church in Amsterdam, located on Dam Square, next to the Royal Palace.  More...

http://www.nieuwekerk.nl/en/#/en/pers/passie_voor_perfectie/beeldmateriaal.htm
Today, the church is no longer used for services but is now a popular exhibition space, giving it a museum function managed by the Nationale Stichting De Nieuwe Kerk. There is a café in one of the buildings attached to the church that has an entrance to the church (during opening hours). There is a museum store inside the entrance that sells postcards, books, and gifts having to do with the church and its exhibitions. http://www.nieuwekerk.nl/en/#/en/winkel/?m=99

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Advertising bookmark Kader Abdolah

Kader Abdolah ( born 12 November 1954 in Arak, Iran) is a Persian–Dutch writer, poet and columnist. He has written books and many articles in Dutch and is known for using Persian literary items in his Dutch works. He regularly appears on Dutch TV channels as well.
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Advertising bookmark Charles den Tex books "Cel"

Charles den Tex (b. 1952, Camberwell, Australia) has written seven thrillers up to date. All take place against a background of trade and industry, and involve fraud with regard to deals, mergers, and information streams – invariably resulting in murder with the aim of securing financial and political interests. His years of experience in the business world inspired him to write financial thrillers. Because, to quote den Tex, ‘Where there’s money, there’s crime.’ All his novels have been nominated for the Gouden Strop, and no fewer than three have actually won the award. Besides Cel (Cell, 2008), these were De macht van meneer Miller (The Power of Mr Miller, 2006) and Schijn van kans (Chance in Hell, 2002). Den Tex is one of the two most acclaimed thriller authors in the Netherlands. His work is often compared to that of John Grisham, Michael Crichton and Michael Ridpath.

http://www.nlpvf.nl/book/book2.php?Book=667 

Kingfisher

Another birthday greeting from bookmark collector Denny,Holland . Thank you very much for nice bookmarks:)

How cute, birthday yet not begun, but I already got so many gifts !!! :D

Kingfishers are a group of small to medium sized brightly coloured birds in the order Coraciiformes. They have a cosmopolitan distribution, with most species being found in the Old World and Australia. The group is treated either as a single family, Alcedinidae, or as a suborder Alcedines containing three families, Alcedinidae (river kingfishers), Halcyonidae (tree kingfishers), and Cerylidae (water kingfishers). There are roughly 90 species of kingfisher. All have large heads, long, sharp, pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails. Most species have bright plumage with little differences between the sexes. Most species are tropical in distribution, and a slight majority are found only in forests. They consume a wide range of prey as well as fish, usually caught by swooping down from a perch. Like other members of their order they nest in cavities, usually tunnels dug into the natural or artificial banks in the ground. A few species, principally insular forms, are threatened with extinction. More...

This bookmark is Denny personal  . On that bookmark is also the name of Denny picasa site. :) http://picasaweb.google.com/zdenacerny

 

Vaals

Vaals  is a town in the extreme southeastern part of the Dutch province of Limburg, which in its turn finds itself in the southeastern part of the Netherlands.
The municipality covers an area of 23.90 km² in the foothills of the Ardennes–Eifelrange and is located about 23 km east of Maastricht and 5 km west of the city centre of Aachen.
It borders on both Belgium and Germany. The three borders meet on the Drielandenpunt, a few meters from the highest point of the Netherlands, the Vaalserberg. The Vaalserberg used to be called "Hubertusberg". More...
http://no.tixik.com/image-136101.htm

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Tuxen's Wedding of Tsar Nicholas II and tsarina Alexandra Fjodorova

Bookmark is from the Amsterdam Hermitage .

Hermitage Amsterdam is a dependency of the Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg on the Amstel river in Amsterdam. The dependency is located at the former Amstelhof, a classical style building from 1681. The dependency has been displaying small exhibitions in a side building next to the Amstelhof since 24 February 2004. The full museum was opened on 19 June 2009.
http://www.hermitage.nl/en/hermitage_amsterdam/

Laurits Tuxen Danish Painter, 1853-1927 was a Danish painter specialising in figure painting. He was also associated with the Skagen group of painters. Tuxen grew up in Copenhagen and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art where together with P.S. Krøyer he was considered to be one of the best painters. He first visited Skagen in 1870 and he returned on several occasions. In the 1880s and 1890s, he travelled widely painting portraits for Europe's royal families including Christian IX of Denmark, Queen Victoria and the Russian royalty. In 1901, after the death of his first wife Ursule, he married the Norwegian Frederikke Treschow and shortly aferwards purchased Madam Bendsen's house at the artists' colony in Skagen in the north of Jutland, converting it into a stately summer residence.

Nicholas II (Russian: Николай II, Николай Александрович Романов, tr. Nikolay II, Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov ) (18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Prince of Finland, and titular King of Poland. His official title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias and he is currently regarded as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church. More..

Butterflies and poppies

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Between them, Vincent and Theo had a considerable collection of Japanese prints, and the influences of Japanese art are clearly visible in this decorative floral piece. The close-up of the flowers and insects is typically Japanese, as are the asymmetric composition and the lack of depth.

Amidst a confusion of green foliage, Van Gogh created butterflies with a few dabs of paint – a counterpoint to the two flowers at the top of the painting. The vegetative profusion at lower right contrasts with the emptiness at left, where whole areas of canvas remain unpainted.

Vincent Willem van Gogh 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890 was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art for its vivid colors and emotional impact. He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life and died, largely unknown, at the age of 37 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Little appreciated during his lifetime, his fame grew in the years after his death. Today, he is widely regarded as one of history's greatest painters and an important contributor to the foundations of modern art. Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties, and most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years. He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. Today many of his pieces—including his numerous self portraits, landscapes, portraits and sunflowers—are among the world's most recognizable and expensive works of art. More...

Vincent van Gogh

Cat

Tulip

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Birds

My friend Jurate embroidery.Thank her for it, very cute bookmark :)