cnidarian: Reproduction and life cycles: …pneumatophores, pulsating, locomotory structures called nectophores, and flattened, protective individuals called bracts or phyllozooids.

frog and toad: Annotated classification: …development, or live birth (Nectophrynoides only); worldwide, except the eastern part of the Indo-Australian archipelago, Polynesia, and Madagascar; Bufo marinus introduced into Australia and some Pacific islands; 27 genera, about 360 species; adult size 2 to about 25 cm (1 to 10 inches). Family Centrolenidae No fossil record; 8…

amphibian: Annotated classification: †Order Nectridea (nectrideans) Lower Pennsylvanian to Middle Permian. Lepospondylous vertebrae; elongate body with reduced well-differentiated limbs; fan-shaped neural and haemal spines on caudal vertebrae. †Order Microsauria (microsaurs) Lower Pennsylvanian to Middle Permian. Lepospondylous vertebrae,

mud puppy, any of five species of entirely aquatic salamanders in a genus (Necturus) belonging to the family Proteidae (or Necturidae), in the order Caudata. Their popular name derives from the mistaken belief that they are able to bark. They are found in lakes, rivers, and swamps of eastern North

Ivan Levitsky was a Ukrainian Realist novelist of the postserfdom reform period. He drew upon his background as a seminary student and, later, a provincial teacher, to depict the educated and lower classes in some of the earliest social novels in Ukrainian literature. His works include Prichepa

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, (NED), the title of the original edition (1884–1928) of The Oxford English Dictionary (q.v.), which was the revised and corrected edition published in 1933. (Read H.L. Mencken’s 1926 Britannica essay on American

Patricia Grace: …later work of nonfiction is Ned & Katina: A True Love Story (2009). It relates the true story of a Māori soldier who during World War II falls in love with, marries, and returns to New Zealand with the woman from Crete whose family rescues him. The novel Chappy (2015)…

Tony Richardson: …credits included the Australian western Ned Kelly (1970), starring Mick Jagger; A Delicate Balance (1972), an adaptation of Edward Albee’s play; and Joseph Andrews (1977), based on another Fielding novel. He also directed The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), from a novel by John Irving.

Austin Butler: Teen sitcoms and other early credits: …as an extra on Nickelodeon’s Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide. Butler went on to appear in 41 episodes from 2005 to 2007. During this time he also appeared on two episodes (2006, 2007) of Hannah Montana, a Disney Channel series that starred Miley Cyrus. Other teen sitcoms followed as Butler…

nuclear weapon: Selecting a weapon design: …1943 a Project Y physicist, Seth Neddermeyer, proposed the first serious theoretical analysis of implosion. His arguments showed that it would be feasible to compress a solid sphere of plutonium by surrounding it with high explosives and that this method would be superior to the gun method both in its…

Baikonur launchpad explosion, explosion of a Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile on October 24, 1960, at a launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in what is today Kazakhstan. An unknown number of people, with official estimates ranging from 60 to 120, were killed, and the disaster is considered

Baikonur launchpad explosion: Mitrofan Nedelin, head of the Soviet Union’s strategic missile forces, decided that it was necessary to speed up the test launch of the missile so that it could take place in time for the anniversary of the October Revolution, on October 24.

Sebastian Cornelius Nederburgh: …the Charter of 1801, or Nederburgh’s Charter, which established Dutch colonial policy after the government’s takeover of the Dutch East India Company.

Sebastian Cornelius Nederburgh was a conservative Dutch statesman who was chiefly responsible for the Charter of 1801, or Nederburgh’s Charter, which established Dutch colonial policy after the government’s takeover of the Dutch East India Company. Nederburgh became a lawyer for the company in

Dutch Reformed Church, South African denomination that traces its beginnings to the Reformed tradition of the first white settlers who came to South Africa from the Netherlands in the mid-17th century. It is the main church of the Afrikaans-speaking whites, and its present membership covers a large

Dutch Reformed Church in Africa, denomination formed in 1859 by the all-white Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa for its black African mission congregations. It has the same structure, doctrine, traditions, and customs as the mother church, which retains extensive control over it by supplying 80

Dutch Reformed Mission Church in South Africa, denomination established in 1881 by three congregations that separated from the white Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa to form the nucleus of a semiautonomous denomination for people of racially mixed parentage (Coloureds). The church parallels

Netherlands, country located in northwestern Europe, also known as Holland. “Netherlands” means low-lying country; the name Holland (from Houtland, or “Wooded Land”) was originally given to one of the medieval cores of what later became the modern state and is still used for 2 of its 12 provinces

Dutch Republic, (1588–1795), state whose area comprised approximately that of the present Kingdom of the Netherlands and which achieved a position of world power in the 17th century. The republic consisted of the seven northern Netherlands provinces that won independence from Spain from 1568 to

Protestant Church in the Netherlands, united Christian church, largest Protestant church in the Netherlands, formed in the merger of three Dutch churches. In May 2004, after nearly 20 years of negotiations, the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Nederlands Gereformeerde Kerken; then the second

Netherlands Reformed Church, Protestant church in the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition, the successor of the established Dutch Reformed Church that developed during the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. In 2004 it merged with two other churches—the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands

Dutch language, a West Germanic language that is the national language of the Netherlands and, with French and German, one of the three official languages of Belgium. Although speakers of English usually call the language of the Netherlands “Dutch” and the language of Belgium “Flemish,” they are

Dutch East Indies, one of the overseas territories of the Netherlands until December 1949, now Indonesia. This territory was made up of Sumatra and adjacent islands, Java with Madura, Borneo (except for North Borneo, which is now part of Malaysia and of Brunei), Celebes with Sangihe and Talaud

Dutch East Indies, one of the overseas territories of the Netherlands until December 1949, now Indonesia. This territory was made up of Sumatra and adjacent islands, Java with Madura, Borneo (except for North Borneo, which is now part of Malaysia and of Brunei), Celebes with Sangihe and Talaud

Johannes, count van den Bosch: …this experience he based his Nederlandsche bezittingen in Azië, Amerika, en Afrika (1818; “Dutch Possessions in Asia, America, and Africa”), in which he argued against a liberal colonial system and for a strongly paternalistic one, claiming that people unaccustomed to a work ethic needed strong guidance. From 1828 to 1833,…

Indonesia: The Culture System: …formation in 1824 of the Netherlands Trading Society (Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij; NHM)—a company embracing all merchants engaged in the East Indies trade and supported by the government of The Netherlands with the king as its chief shareholder—did not produce the hoped-for commercial expansion. In 1830, however, a newly appointed governor-general, Johannes…

Netherlands Antilles, group of five islands in the Caribbean Sea that formerly constituted an autonomous part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The group is composed of two widely separated subgroups approximately 500 miles (800 km) apart. The southern group comprises Curaçao and Bonaire, which

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft: In Nederlandse historiën (20 vol., published 1642, a continuation in 1654), the glory of the epic hero, the prince of Orange, is reflected in Hooft’s affection for the commoners who fought for the new democracy in Holland (now part of the Netherlands). Tacitus was his model…

Netherlands: Media and publishing: …access to the airwaves by Netherlands Broadcasting Corporation, which is responsible for news and the programming of unreserved airtime. The government itself exerts no influence on the programming, and advertising is restricted and is controlled by a separate foundation. All public broadcasting is financed by a licensing fee and by…

Utrecht, provincie, central Netherlands, the country’s smallest, with an area of 514 square miles (1,331 square km). It extends southward from the narrow Lake Eem, which separates Utrecht provincie from the South Flevoland polder of Flevoland provincie. Utrecht provincie lies between the provincies

Marchamont Needham was a British journalist and publisher of the Mercurius Britanicus, an anti-Royalist commentary on news and politics and a forerunner of the modern newspaper. Needham’s father, an attendant to an aristocratic woman, died when Marchamont was an infant, and the boy was raised by

Serbia: Serbia in World War II: Milan Nedić. No Serbs welcomed the occupation, but some passively accepted the Nedić regime, and a few even supported it. Many more favoured the resistance movement set up by Serbs from the Yugoslav army under a former officer, Col. Dragoljub Mihailović. Adopting the label Chetnik…

Ahmed Nedim was one of the greatest lyric poets of Ottoman Turkish literature. The son of a judge, Nedim was brought up as a religious scholar and teacher and, winning the patronage of the grand vizier, Nevsheherli İbrahim Paşa, received an appointment as a librarian. Later, he became the Sultan’s

Kateb Yacine: Kateb’s first novel, Nedjma (1956), is undoubtedly the one work that has most influenced the course of Francophone North African literature. Nedjma recounts a tale of intraclan conflict against the background of violence and disunity characteristic of Algerian society under French colonial rule. It incorporates local legends and…

Born in Livorno, Italy, in 1894, the fencer Nedo Nadi enjoyed an unusual advantage early on. His father, Giuseppe Nadi, was one of Italy’s greatest swordsmen, and from childhood Nedo and his brother Aldo received expert tutelage in using swords of all kinds. Only one type of sword was forbidden to

Triceratops: Development: ) Similarly, the ceratopsid dinosaur Nedoceratops, which is known from a single specimen, possessed a small opening in its frill that suggests that it could be an intermediate growth stage between Triceratops and Torosaurus. Alternatively, it may represent a distinct genus of horned dinosaur or a Triceratops with an unusual…

Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin: His masterpiece, Nedorosl (published 1783; “The Minor”), is considered the first truly Russian drama. It deals with a gentry family so ignorant and brutish that they survive only through the industry of their ill-treated serfs. The plot centres on the tyrannical mother’s attempts to educate her spoiled…

20th-century Norwegian literature: After World War II: In her early short stories Torborg Nedreaas, also a politically committed author, retold stories from the war years, but she did so from a woman’s point of view. However, it was her Musikk fra en blå brønn (1960; Music from a Blue Well), about a young girl’s growing up, that…

India: Southern Indian kingdoms: The chief Nedunjeliyan (early 3rd century ce) is celebrated by the poets of the cankam as the victor in campaigns against the Ceras and the Cholas. Cera inscriptions of the 2nd century ce referring to the Irrumporai clan have been found near Karur (Tiruchchirapalli district), identified with…

Cera dynasty: Among them, Nedunjeral Adan is said to have attacked Yavana ships and held Yavana traders ransom. His son Senguttuvan, much eulogized in Shangam poems, is also mentioned in the context of Gajabahu’s rule (2nd century ce) in Sri Lanka.

the Local Church: …out of the ministry of Watchman Nee (1903–72), a Chinese Christian who had been strongly influenced by the Plymouth Brethren, a British fundamentalist free church. In the 1930s Nee wrote several books presenting his beliefs and founded churches throughout China. He adopted an Evangelical Christian perspective but believed that the…

Abominable Snowman, mythical monster resembling a large, hairy, apelike being supposed to inhabit the Himalayas at about the level of the snow line. Though reports of actual sightings of such a creature are rare, certain mysterious markings in the snow have traditionally been attributed to it.

Bollywood: Cultural and global impact: Neecha Nagar was joint winner of the best film award at the very first Cannes film festival in 1946. As of 2024 three Indian movies have been nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film; these have all been Hindi offerings—Mother India, Mira Nair’s…

drive: …in psychology, an urgent basic need pressing for satisfaction, usually rooted in some physiological tension, deficiency, or imbalance (e.g., hunger and thirst) and impelling the organism to action. Some researchers have used the term need synonymously, although others distinguish between need as the deprived state and drive as its psychological…

Finding a financial professional can be confusing. You may hear terms like financial advisor, certified financial planner, and chartered financial consultant, but how do you know which one you need? Or do you even need a financial advisor? If you understand the basics of investing and the

What’s it like to work with a credit counselor? How do you find one (and how do you know if you’ve found the right one for you)? If you’re just learning about the credit counseling process, then perhaps you’re already pondering these questions. Credit counselors typically organize into agencies,

Michael Keaton: Birdman and Spotlight: …in such movies as RoboCop, Need for Speed, and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). He earned particular acclaim for the latter film, in which he starred as an actor who had achieved iconic status as the titular superhero and was desperately trying to regain his glory days by…

Lisel Mueller: …Book Award in 1981 for The Need to Hold Still (1980). In 2002 she received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Tom Steyer: …2017, when he launched a campaign to impeach U.S. Pres. Donald Trump. His efforts included digital and television advertisements as well as an online petition. Although there was speculation that he would seek the U.S. presidency, in January 2019 Steyer announced that he would not run. However, six months later…

Stephen King: Other novels: …he published Needful Things (1991; film 1993); Dolores Claiborne (1993; film 1995); The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999); Dreamcatcher (2001; film 2003); Cell (2006; film 2016); Lisey’s Story (2006; TV miniseries 2021); Duma Key (2008); Under the Dome (2009; TV series 2013–15);

Stephen King: Other novels: …the 21st century, he published Needful Things (1991; film 1993); Dolores Claiborne (1993; film 1995); The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999); Dreamcatcher (2001; film 2003); Cell (2006; film 2016); Lisey’s Story (2006; TV miniseries 2021); Duma Key (2008); Under the Dome

cephalopod: Reproduction and life cycles: The final sac (Needham’s organ) is used for storage of spermatophores. The spermatophores are complicated, containing sperm reservoir, cement body, cap, and a delicate triggering mechanism for releasing the tube and cementing it to the female’s body, where the sperm are released when the eggs are…

IMDb: …Seattle, but the office of Col Needham, the founder and CEO, remains in Bristol, England, where the Web site was founded.

Hester Bateman was a silversmith noted particularly for her domestic silver of elegant simplicity. Her husband, John Bateman, who worked in gold and silver, particularly watch chains, died in 1760. The next year she took over the family business, registering her mark at the Goldsmiths’ Hall,

John Needham was an English naturalist and Roman Catholic divine, the first clergyman of his faith to become a fellow of the Royal Society of London (1768). He was ordained in 1738 but spent much of his time as a teacher and tutor. His reading about animalcules (microscopic organisms) aroused an

John Needham was an English naturalist and Roman Catholic divine, the first clergyman of his faith to become a fellow of the Royal Society of London (1768). He was ordained in 1738 but spent much of his time as a teacher and tutor. His reading about animalcules (microscopic organisms) aroused an

Joseph Needham was an English biochemist, embryologist, and historian of science who wrote and edited the landmark history Science and Civilisation in China, a comprehensive study of Chinese scientific development. The son of a physician, Needham earned a doctoral degree in 1924 from the University

Marchamont Needham was a British journalist and publisher of the Mercurius Britanicus, an anti-Royalist commentary on news and politics and a forerunner of the modern newspaper. Needham’s father, an attendant to an aristocratic woman, died when Marchamont was an infant, and the boy was raised by

Joseph Needham was an English biochemist, embryologist, and historian of science who wrote and edited the landmark history Science and Civilisation in China, a comprehensive study of Chinese scientific development. The son of a physician, Needham earned a doctoral degree in 1924 from the University

phonograph: …of the vibration of a stylus, or needle, following a groove on a rotating disc. A phonograph disc, or record, stores a replica of sound waves as a series of undulations in a sinuous groove inscribed on its rotating surface by the stylus. When the record is played back, another…

needle, basic implement used in sewing or embroidering and, in variant forms, for knitting and crocheting. The sewing needle is small, slender, rodlike, with a sharply pointed end to facilitate passing through fabric and with the opposite end slotted to carry a thread. Bone and horn needles have

climate: Snow and sleet: stellars, columns, needles, spatial dendrites, capped columns, and irregular crystals. The size and shape of the snow crystals depend mainly on the temperature of their formation and on the amount of water vapour that is available for deposition. The two principal influences are not independent; the possible…

syringe exchange service, public health resource allowing individuals who inject drugs to switch out used syringes and needles for new, sterile drug injection equipment. Such services are a critical component of harm reduction strategies, helping to minimize the negative impacts of drug use,

cancer: Biopsy: Needle biopsy involves the removal of a core of tissue from a tumor mass with a specially designed needle often under imaging guidance. Alternatively, the needle can be stereotactically guided to a previously localized lesion. This type of biopsy yields a tissue core or cylinder…

hip-hop: Origins and the old school: Needle dropping, created by Grandmaster Flash, prolonged short drum breaks by playing two copies of a record simultaneously and moving the needle on one turntable back to the start of the break while the other played. Sliding the record back and forth underneath the needle…

syringe exchange service, public health resource allowing individuals who inject drugs to switch out used syringes and needles for new, sterile drug injection equipment. Such services are a critical component of harm reduction strategies, helping to minimize the negative impacts of drug use,

Dreyse rifle, rifle named for its inventor, Nikolaus von Dreyse. It had a long, sharp firing pin designed to pierce the charge of propelling powder and strike the detonating material (usually mercury fulminate) located at the base of the bullet. The Dreyse rifle, invented between 1827 and 1829, was

needle lace, with bobbin lace, one of the two main kinds of lace. In needle lace the design is drawn on a piece of parchment or thick paper, cloth-backed. An outlining thread stitched onto this serves as a supporting framework, and the lace is worked with a needle and a single thread in a

spire: … period in England, a slender, needle spire was set in from the edge of the tower, broaches disappeared, corner pinnacles became customary, and a low parapet was added around the tower’s edge, as seen in the two western spires of Lichfield cathedral.

Margaret Drabble: Forster Award for The Needle’s Eye (1972), which explores questions of religion and morality. Her trilogy comprising The Radiant Way (1987), A Natural Curiosity (1989), and The Gates of Ivory (1991) follows the lives of three women who met at Cambridge during the 1950s. In The Peppered Moth…

navigation: The lodestone and the compass card: …but is now called the variation or declination. For a time, compass makers in northern countries mounted the needle askew on the card so that the fleur-de-lis indicated true north when the needle pointed to magnetic north. This practice died out about 1700 because it succeeded only for short voyages…

bush baby: The needle-clawed bush babies are classified in another genus, Euoticus. The two species live in the rainforests of west-central Africa. They feed on tree exudate, clinging upside-down to the bark of a tree by digging in their sharp-pointed clawlike nails, stabbing the bark with specialized canine…

bush baby: The needle-clawed bush babies are classified in another genus, Euoticus. The two species live in the rainforests of west-central Africa. They feed on tree exudate, clinging upside-down to the bark of a tree by digging in their sharp-pointed clawlike nails, stabbing the bark with specialized canine…

needlefish, any of the long, slim, primarily marine fishes of the family Belonidae (order Atheriniformes), found throughout temperate and tropical waters. Needlefish are adept jumpers, carnivorous in habit, and distinguished by long, slender jaws equipped with sharp teeth. They are silvery fish,

needlegrass, (genus Stipa), genus of about 150 species of grasses in the family Poaceae, characterized by sharply pointed grains and long threadlike awns (bristles). Most needlegrasses provide good forage in dry areas before the seed is formed, but the sharp grain of some species may puncture the

bioinformatics: Goals of bioinformatics: The Needleman-Wunsch algorithm, which is based on dynamic programming, guarantees finding the optimal alignment of pairs of sequences. This algorithm essentially divides a large problem (the full sequence) into a series of smaller problems (short sequence segments) and uses the solutions of the smaller problems to…

needlepoint, type of embroidery known as canvas work until the early 19th century. In needlepoint the stitches are counted and worked with a needle over the threads, or mesh, of a canvas foundation. Either single- or double-mesh canvas of linen or cotton is used. If needlepoint is worked on a

needle lace, with bobbin lace, one of the two main kinds of lace. In needle lace the design is drawn on a piece of parchment or thick paper, cloth-backed. An outlining thread stitched onto this serves as a supporting framework, and the lace is worked with a needle and a single thread in a

Canyonlands National Park: The Needles has sandstone formations that include the massive red- and white-banded rock pinnacles for which the area is named, as well as the Druid and Angel arches, which are gigantic balanced rock formations, the latter reaching a height of 150 feet (45 metres). Grabens, or…

Needles, city, San Bernardino county, southeastern California, U.S. Situated on the Colorado River (impounded [south] to form Lake Havasu), the city was founded in 1883 as a way station for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad (now the Santa Fe) and was named for a group of isolated needlelike peaks

Shiprock, town, San Juan county, northwestern New Mexico, U.S. Lying on the vast Navajo reservation, the town, originally called Needles, was founded in 1903 as a center of tribal government. It served as such until 1938, when the Navajo nation established its capital at Window Rock, Arizona. The

Robert Lepage: Early life and career: There he staged Needles and Opium (1991), in which French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau and American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, both played by Lepage, exchanged places. Lepage envisioned the men in 1949 traveling between New York and Paris at the same time, both addicted to drugs. In…

bridge: U.S. designs: …Point Bridge (1987), designed by Howard Needles in consultation with Ulrich Finsterwalder, crosses the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida. The main span at Dames Point is 390 meters (1,300 feet), with side spans of 200 meters (660 feet). From H-shaped towers of reinforced concrete, two planes of stays in…

Isle of Wight: …Cliff in the east to The Needles in the west. The ridge is the thickest bed of chalk in the British Isles. The Needles are three detached masses of chalk that lie off the island’s westernmost point and rise to about 100 feet (30 metres). In the northern portion of…

Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE), North American trade union formed in 1995 by the merger of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (q.v.) and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (q.v.). The union represents apparel workers in the United

Ludwig van Beethoven: The early years: …nomination as court organist of Christian Gottlob Neefe, a Protestant from Saxony, who became Beethoven’s teacher. Although somewhat limited as a musician, Neefe was nonetheless a man of high ideals and wide culture, a man of letters as well as a composer of songs and light theatrical pieces; and it…

Curie point: …Curie point is called the Néel temperature in honour of the French physicist Louis Néel, who in 1936 successfully explained antiferromagnetism.

Alice Neel, (b. January 28, 1900, Merion Square [now Gladwyne], Pennsylvania, U.S.—d. October 13, 1984, New York, New York), American realist painter celebrated for her honest and expressive portraits, produced at a time when Abstract Expressionism was the prevailing style in American painting.

Alice Neel, (b. January 28, 1900, Merion Square [now Gladwyne], Pennsylvania, U.S.—d. October 13, 1984, New York, New York), American realist painter celebrated for her honest and expressive portraits, produced at a time when Abstract Expressionism was the prevailing style in American painting.

Louis-Eugène-Félix Néel was a French physicist who was corecipient, with the Swedish astrophysicist Hannes Alfvén, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his pioneering studies of the magnetic properties of solids. His contributions to solid-state physics have found numerous useful

neem, (Azadirachta indica), fast-growing tree of the mahogany family (Meliaceae), valued as a medicinal plant, as a source of organic pesticides, and for its timber. Neem is likely native to the Indian subcontinent and to dry areas throughout South Asia. It has been introduced to parts of Africa,

neem: Uses: Neem oil and neem bark and leaves are unsafe for consumption by pregnant women and can cause miscarriage.

Pilar, town, southwestern Paraguay. It lies on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, across from the mouth of the Arroyo Bermejo. Founded in 1779 and originally known as Ñeembucú, the town is a river port handling the agricultural products of the fertile area between the Paraguay and Paraná

Neemuch, city, northwestern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is located in an upland plateau region on a barren basaltic ridge at an elevation of 1,640 feet (500 metres). The city site was the location of a palace in the district of the Ajmer province. Originally a part of the territory of

Neenah, city, Winnebago county, east-central Wisconsin, U.S. It lies on Lake Winnebago and the Fox River, just south of Appleton. The city, with adjoining Menasha to the north, forms one economic and social community. Menominee, Fox, and Ho-Chunk Nation (Winnebago) Indians were early inhabitants of

rutabaga, (Brassica napus, variety napobrassica), root vegetable in the mustard family (Brassicaceae), cultivated for its fleshy roots and edible leaves. Rutabagas likely originated as a cross between turnips (Brassica rapa, variety rapa) and wild cabbage (Brassica oleracea) and are thought to have

Aert van der Neer was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period, famous for his nocturnal landscapes and winter scenes. His mastery of light effects is revealed in his many darkened landscapes lit by a full moon or a burning building as well as by his sensitivity to the appearance of light on water and

Aert van der Neer was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period, famous for his nocturnal landscapes and winter scenes. His mastery of light effects is revealed in his many darkened landscapes lit by a full moon or a burning building as well as by his sensitivity to the appearance of light on water and

Aert van der Neer was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period, famous for his nocturnal landscapes and winter scenes. His mastery of light effects is revealed in his many darkened landscapes lit by a full moon or a burning building as well as by his sensitivity to the appearance of light on water and

Aert van der Neer was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period, famous for his nocturnal landscapes and winter scenes. His mastery of light effects is revealed in his many darkened landscapes lit by a full moon or a burning building as well as by his sensitivity to the appearance of light on water and