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Eye Candy for Today: Vermeer’s Girl with the Red Hat
Girl with the Red Hat, Johannes Vermeer, oil on panel roughly 9 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. Not as iconic as Girl with a Pearl Earring, so perhaps easier to see freshly, Vermeer’s Girl with the Red Hat is likewise a “tronie”, a…
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A Fresh Look: Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring
Hopefully — even if only for a moment — you got to see in the top two images Vermeer’s iconic painting with fresh eyes. The images are reversed left to right. It is not an uncommon practice for artists to pause in the process of working on a painting or other artwork and view the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Vermeer’s Geographer
The Geographer, Johannes Vermeer, oil on canvas, roughly 18×20 inches(45 x 51 cm). Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Staedel Museum, Germany. Twenty six years ago this month, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC debuted a most remarkable exhibition of…
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Vermeer restoration unveiled with revealed Cupid
Johannes Vermeer, the remarkable 17th century painter from the city of Delft in the Netherlands, is revered for his transcendent portrayals of the effects of light and atmosphere in domestic scenes. He is best known for his series of compositions in which people, predominantly young women, are seen engaged in simple activities in front of…
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High resolution images of Vermeer’s paintings
Johannes Vermeer was either a remarkable 17th century Dutch painter or an enchanted sorcerer of light from beyond time and space — sometimes it’s hard to tell — but I find his work particularly entrancing among all painters. His known existing oeuvre consists of only 36 paintings, each fascinating in their own way. I have…
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Eye Candy for Today: Vermeer’s Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, Johannes Vermeer In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download icons under the image on the museum’s website. Of the 35 or 36 Vermeer paintings acknowledged to exist, I’ve had the good fortune in my time to have seen perhaps 20 in person.…