Vermeer - The Rijksmuseum's major exhibition catalogue

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More paintings, greater (and more condensed) visions and variations, it offers every opportunity to look longer, slower and more keenly than ever before. The Times - "Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum is the exhibition of the century" - Waldemar Januszczak - Feb. He certainly owned a book by Peter Canisius and two of his children had been baptized in the Catholic faith with the names of the founders: Francesco (Saverio) and Ignazio. Time is held in profound and productive absorption, which feels far more significant than the creation of any lace.

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Faces will be in the spotlight at the KMSKA this autumn, with the first major exhibition following the museum’s grand reopening, which focuses on the development of a Northern European genre, the tronie (head study). For more than 250 years now, the famous painting by Johannes Vermeer featuring a profile depiction of a girl intently reading a letter in front of a light-coloured empty wall has held a firm place among the masterpieces in the Dresden Gemäldegalerie. points out in the exhibition catalogue that in 17th-century Dutch society “as lady of the house she [De Knuijt] will have taken the lead in furnishing their home and purchasing paintings”. m. The film provides a behind-the-scenes look at the largest Vermeer exhibition ever mounted, which took place in early 2023 at the Rijksmuseum in The Netherlands.

While the phrase was coined in the 20th century by the Modernist architect Mies van der Rohe, it could easily have been pronounced by Johannes Vermeer back in the 17th century. I’ve just uploaded the first two videos: one on the Girl with a Flute, which the National Gallery of Art has officially demoted, and the other, A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals in the New York Leiden Collection. AUTHENTICITY There are thirty-four paintings which modern scholars overwhelmingly agree should be attributed to Johannes Vermeer of Delft. Like the image of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, or Van Gogh’s Starry Night, his Girl with a Pearl Earring, is an icon of our times.

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As a result of the latest investigations and the current restoration of the painting, it has now been proven that this overpainting was not done by Vermeer himself but was executed by a different hand some years after the completion of the Girl Reading a Letter.Details are enigmatic: a single red drop on the floor (perhaps sealing wax), a playing card brandished as if in warning by a cherub, friezes of Delft tiles that existed in reality but look as if they might be decoded. Little is known about the personality of Johannes Vermeer, one of the most famous Dutch painters of the 17th century. In the Frick’s Mistress and Maid, an uncommonly grand Vermeer, the lady of the house edits a love letter while wearing a yellow morning jacket trimmed with white fur. The Rijksmuseum published the online course Vermeer, in which presenter Özcan Akyol shows the most beautiful details with Gregor J.

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Equally, you are not supposed to work out what is going on in these scenes, but instead to let each fine mystery hover before you undisturbed. Though it was a logistical miracle to corral three-quarters of Vermeer’s output into one show, 28 is still very few paintings to hang in a large exhibition space. Vermeer’s mid-period paintings are cleverly grouped in elastic themes, of women writing and reading letters, of musical interludes, of women with male visitors, of women gazing out at us. Curators had gathered 21 of the Dutch artist’s some three dozen extant paintings, many of which rarely if ever traveled.The Louvre-Lens, also referred to as the Louvre's "little brother," was established as a way to decentralize France’s vast collection of art and allow a wider audience to have access to the works of great cultural and historical significance. The painting “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window” was acquired for the collection of the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, August III, in the spring of 1742 through a stroke of good fortune. Really, the show is just about perfect: perfectly argued, perfectly paced, as clear and uncontaminated as the light streaming through those Delft windows. You will see ultramarine in almost all of his paintings, on clothes but also on tablecloths, cushions and curtains – it draws the eye like a magnet, it always impresses. Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces from the Leiden collection and the Musée du Louvre.