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Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. He produced relatively few paintings, primarily earning his living as an art dealer. He was not wealthy; at his d…
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culture · Dutch painter (1632–1675) · painter · art collector · art dealer · also Johannes Vermeer, Jan Reyniersz Vermeer van Delft, Jan van Der Meer, Jan Van der Meer, Jan van der Meer, Jan Vermeer de Delft
Born October 1632 · Died 15 December 1675 · Q41264
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They are not like photographs. Rather, they are scenes that are arranged and rearranged, and that’s not realistic. For example, they are not portraits but paintings of ideal types: women of beauty, scholars. Some objects, such as chandeliers, were never found in [domestic] interiors at that time.
Vermeer isn’t an original artist. Most of his ideas, his compositions, even his tricks, come from other painters.
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“They are not like photographs. Rather, they are scenes that are arranged and rearranged, and that’s not realistic. For example, they are not portraits but paintings of ideal types: women of beauty, scholars. Some objects, such as chandeliers, were never found in [domestic] interiors at that time.”
“Vermeer isn’t an original artist. Most of his ideas, his compositions, even his tricks, come from other painters.”
Hypebeast: weber Turns Vermeer's ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ Into a Washed Vintage-Style T-shirt
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The Guardian: Shreg the green ogre, a grey obsessive and Vermeer’s boiled egg – the week in art
Indiatimes: 6 most beautiful paintings of Johannes Vermeer and why we think so
The Guardian: Illuminating Johannes Vermeer’s use of the camera obscura
Was another movie about the exhibition at the Rijkmuseum: Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition
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Maria de Knuijt was identified by the curators of the 2023 exhibition of Vermeer's works at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam as the main patron because of her long-standing and supportive relationship with the artist
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CBC.ca: Johannes Vermeer painting restored to reveal portrait of Cupid in once-bare background
Town & Country: The National Gallery's Johannes Vermeer Exhibition Is Something You Can't Miss
Artnet: Johannes Vermeer: The 36th Painting
American entrepreneur and inventor Tim Jenison developed the theory that Vermeer had used a camera obscura along with a "comparator mirror", which is similar in concept to a camera lucida but much simpler and makes it ea
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British artist David Hockney published the book Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, in which he argued that Vermeer (among other Renaissance and Baroque artists including Hans Holbein
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In which Steadman specifically claimed that Vermeer had used a camera obscura to create his paintings
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The Love Letter was stolen from the Fine Arts Palace in Brussels, where it was on loan from the Rijksmuseum for the exhibition Rembrandt and his Age
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Died 1675-12-15.
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Career landmark: funeral.
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Born 1632-10.
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