Knowledge application- use your knowledge to explain the types of subjects and techniques Vermeer use in his paintings Additional Learning To learn more, review the accompanying lesson called Johannes Vermeer: Biography & Paintings. This lesson covers the following objectives: ...
Vermeer's early work concentrated on history paintings but, around 1656, he moved into the genre paintings he would produce for the rest of his career. The man seems to have painted with painstaking slowness, dissecting a whole color spectrum out of "white" light, executing near-perfect optica...
Johannes Vermeer van Delft is considered to be the most famous Dutch artists of the Golden Age, second only to Rembrandt. His life was not long, since he died at age 43 and only left around 34 paintings that have been verified as truly his own. His work continues to mesmerize the world...
was appointed trustee. The house, with eight rooms on the first floor, was filled with paintings, (Vermeer did own three paintings by Fabritius), drawings, clothes, chairs and beds. In his atelier there were among rummage not worthy being itemized, two chairs, two painter's easels, three...
Concise entries and illustrations of the thirty-seven paintings currently given to Vermeer, including the disputed attributions. Preceded by a capsule biography. Purchase of the volume provides the buyer with exclusive access to a website with high-resolution images of the complete paintings. Vermeer:...
"On the biography, it is true that I have still only some chronological landmarks and a few certain facts " Thoré knew little of Vermeer's life. He knew nothing of his marriage or even the date of his death. When he found the catalogue of the sale in Amsterdam of 16 May, 1696, ...
Vermeer began his career in the early 1650s bypaintinglarge-scale biblical and mythological scenes, but most of his later paintings—the ones for which he is most famous—depict scenes of daily life in interior settings. These works are remarkable for their purity of light and form, qualities...
Johannes Vermeer(baptized October 31, 1632, Delft, Netherlands—buried December 16, 1675, Delft) was a Dutch artist who created paintings that are among the most beloved and revered images in the history of art. Although only about 36 of his paintings survive, these rare works are among the...
, The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer (2001). Daniel Arasse, Vermeer: Faith in Painting (1994); and Ivan Gaskell, Vermeer’s Wager: Speculations on Art History, Theory, and Art Museums (2000), are both ostensibly focused around particular paintings, but they actually encompass broader themes ...