Kees Kaldenbach, Dutch art historian and Vermeer expert, has extensively researched the artist's connections to his hometown Delft. Among other things, he identified the tow barges, freight ships and herring busses that populate the View of Delft and even the specific time of the year which Vermeer represented.
(stÅ­mp) n. 1. The part of a tree trunk left protruding from the ground after the tree has fallen or has been felled. 2. A part, as of a branch, limb, or tooth, remaining after the main part has been cut away, broken off, or worn down. 3. a. stumps Informal The legs.
Definition of stoop. intransitive verb. 1a : to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the kneesb : to stand or walk with a forward inclination of the head, body, or shoulders. 2 : yield, submit. 3a : to descend from a superior rank, dignity, or statusb : to lower oneself morally stooped to lying.