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No critic would dare to pan this exhibition and this painter. “Breathtaking,” “mesmerising,” “momentous,” “more precious than pearls”: reviewers have stretched for superlatives. Most struggle to pinpoint Vermeer’s enduring appeal. When the painter died in poverty in December 1675, he did not leave behind any notes, diaries or letters, no records about his teachers or his pupils and not a single self-portrait that can be identified with absolute certainty as his own. Furthermore, only 24 of his paintings were signed and only five dated. Some 350 years later, art historians still cannot determine for certain the number of paintings he produced. The unanswered questions and disputed facts have led time and again to the conclusion that “Johannes Vermeer is a mystery.” Johannes Vermeer: "The Geographer" fom the Städelsches Kunstinstitut (Masterpieces from the World's Museums in the Hermitage) Het Koninklijke kabinet 'Het Mauritshuis' in het museum 'Het Prinsenhof' te Delft. Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof. Feb. 12, 2023 - The Times - " Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum is the exhibition of the century" - Waldemar Januszczak

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The Little Street, Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1658. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rijksmuseum The universal impact of “just a few paintings” Loan Exhibition of Allied Art for Allied Aid for the Benefit of the Red Cross War Relief Fund. M. Knoedler & Co.Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra All the details in his art may be acutely observed—from the clouds passing over Delft to the finial on a Spanish chair, the burr on an Anatolian carpet and the glint on an earring—but they are more than inventories of the visible. Although a devout observer of the surface of things, which he became within a few short years, Vermeer was not a realist. His paintings are careful, complex constructions. Vermeer tentoonstelling ter herdenking van de plechtige opening van het Rijksmuseum op 13 July, 1885. Rijksmuseum. Feb. 21, 2023 - INDIPENDENT - " Bringing a Dutch master home – what makes Vermeer so remarkable?" - William Cook Dutch Painting: The Golden Age. An Exhibition of Dutch Pitcures of Seventeenth Century. Toledo Museum of Art

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We know he was elected twice as headman of the Guild of St Luke; that during the Dutch Republic’s ‘Disaster Year’ of 1672 he sold barely anything, driving him towards penury; and that in 1674 he served as a pikema

Loan Exhibition in Honor of Royal Cortizzos and His 50 Years of Criticism in the New York Herald Tribune. M. Knoedler & Co. Tot lering en vermaak. Betekenissen van Hollande genrevoorstellingen uit de zeventiende eeuw. Rijksmuseum. La ragazza con l'orecchino di perla: Il mito della Golden Age. Da Vermeer a Rembrandt capolavori dal Mauritshuis. Palazzo Fava. This is an exhibition to die for – or even in, like the character in Proust who expires in front of Vermeer’s ‘View of Delft,’” writes The Guardian. “Proust was once so excited to see a Vermeer show that he collapsed. So take it easy if you get to see this gathering of practically all his masterpieces....This is more than an exhibition. It’s a miracle.” I thought I knew Vermeer’s paintings well, but I was startled to discover new details, such as how often he uses red, sometimes as an accent—ribbons in hair or as a tie on a yellow skirt; thread from a sewing box—or as an item of clothing. The Milkmaid is dominated in our minds’ eyes by blue and yellow, yet she wears a red skirt. And throughout the galleries, highlights gleam and shine like silent, spangled stars.