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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:: 93234
A lady writing.
c. 1665-1666
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 45 x 39.9 cm (17.7 x 15.7 in)
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Painting ID:: 93265
Girl with a flute.
circa 1665-1670
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 20 x 17.5 cm (7.9 x 6.9 in)
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Painting ID:: 93311
Woman with a lute.
c. 1662-1664
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 51.4 x 45.7 cm (20.2 x 18 in)
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Painting ID:: 93312
Girl interrupted at her music.
c. 1658-1661
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 39.4 x 44.5 cm (15.5 x 17.5 in)
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Painting ID:: 94894
Girl with the Wine Glass
circa 1659-1660
Medium oil on canvas
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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: | Aristide Maillol | Courbet, Gustave | Pavel Filonov | Jean-Jacques Henner | Marco Marziale |
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