![]() ![]() In a report published on January 23, the law enforcement agency affirmed Lazarus Group, a North Korean cybercrime team, and APT38 as the architects of the exploitation. The exploiters compromised two out of four multisigs securing the bridge last June.įBI has been vocal in its efforts to reduce cases of exploitation.īarely eight months after the devastating attack on Harmony Bridge, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has published its findings about the exploitation. Hackers moved $60 million of stolen funds through RAILGUN, an Ethereum-based privacy protocol. ![]() Woman in Blue Reading a Letter epitomizes the directness and quiet grandeur of his approach at mid-career.The FBI confirmed North Korean cybercrime teams exploited Harmony Bridge. The apparently closely observed moments of private activity and thought he captured in paint are in fact artful constructs, in which Vermeer deployed his sophisticated command of perspective, optical effects, and emotional impact of color to create plausible, yet somehow elusive subjects. Despite extensive archival research that has revealed much about the difficult financial circumstances of the artist's life, familial relationships and avid support by a local patron, many questions about his life and artistic practice remain.Īfter an early career as a large-scale history painter, Vermeer turned his attention to the interior domestic realm in about 1656. A meticulous and careful painter whose innovations were not well-known outside his native city, he may have produced about fifty paintings in just over twenty years, of which about thirty-five survive. Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) was born and spent his comparatively brief career in Delft. As seen in other paintings by Vermeer and his contemporaries, the conical shape in style in the mid-1660s was achieved by wearing a flared jacket over a thick skirt turned over at the waist. For some viewers, her shape suggests pregnancy, which would have been an untypical subject for the period. The significance of the woman's rounded silhouette, which was reduced along the back by Vermeer during the painting process, has prompted much debate since the late 19th century. Although the content of the correspondence is a mystery, the woman's bent head and parted lips impart a sense of suspense. This is Vermeer's most refined and enigmatic treatment of the popular theme of letter reading. In keeping with the delicate atmosphere of the interior, he softened the topography represented on the large map of Holland and West Friesland to muted blue, taupe and ocher tonalities that suggest her complex internal state. In a masterful demonstration of Vermeer's command (and manipulation) of optical effects, the chairs and map rail casts bluish shadows on the wall, but not the woman herself. It glints off the large brass nails decorating the Spanish chairs, which have lions head finials, as well as the small tacks along the edge of the seat. Soft morning light highlights her forehead and glances across the delicate fabric of the jacket, but leaves the bow around a side curl of her hair and the back of her form in deep shadow. The woman is comfortably dressed in a blue padded bed jacket ( beddejak), decorated with yellow bows on the front and sleeve, and a long heavy skirt. ![]() ![]() On the table, a second page of the missive partially covers a string of large pearls on a blue ribbon, perhaps just removed from the open jewelry box nearby. Standing motionless at a table before an unseen window, a young woman intently reads the crisp page of a letter-possibly a precious message from a lover. The composition is so meticulously ordered, that every element contributes to the reflective mood of the female subject at its center. Vermeer's quiet scene is at once familiar and enigmatic. ![]()
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