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Johannes Vermeer
One of the most talented painters in the Dutch Golden Age , 1632-1675
was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours, sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. What strikes in most of his paintings is a certain love, which easily could be called a love sickness, for the people and the objects in his paintings. He created a world more perfect than any he had witnessed. After having been virtually forgotten for nearly one hundred years,
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Painting ID:: 42722
The Schilderconst
MK169
ca. 1670 Cloth
120x100cm
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Painting ID:: 57299
Astronomers
mk255 for in 1668. 0.51 x 0.45 meters canvas. Paris, the Louvre
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Painting ID:: 57300
Lace embroidery woman
mk255 for in the years 1669-1670. 0.24 x 0.21 meters canvas. Paris, the Louvre
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Painting ID:: 61433
Girl with a Pearl Earring,
Girl with a Pearl Earring, known as the "Mona Lisa of the North"
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Painting ID:: 61434
Milkmaid
Milkmaid (1658-1660)
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Johannes Vermeer
One of the most talented painters in the Dutch Golden Age , 1632-1675
was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours, sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. What strikes in most of his paintings is a certain love, which easily could be called a love sickness, for the people and the objects in his paintings. He created a world more perfect than any he had witnessed. After having been virtually forgotten for nearly one hundred years,
. Related Artists to Johannes Vermeer: | Braud, Jean | Roussel Charles | Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps | Gillis Mostaert | Lycett, Joseph |
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