VERMEER AND THE CAMERA OBSCURA
The camera obscura is an optical device that projects an image that is in the surroundings on a screen. It was use to make paintings, and it was one of […]
The camera obscura is an optical device that projects an image that is in the surroundings on a screen. It was use to make paintings, and it was one of […]
This semester, I have been working on The Concert painted by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (c. 1664). In March 1990, it was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum […]
Dialogues with the past ‘All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.’ Edgar Allan Poe. I had gone to Vienna, and once in […]
With a small dimension of 83 x 64.5 cm (32 3/4 x 25 3/8 in.) this oil on canvas is nowadays hung on theGemäldegalerie, in Dresden. It was painted by the Dutch master Johannes […]
For all of us who have been working on Johannes Vermeer and constantly retrieving information on his life, background and artpieces, it is not new that his influence still pervades on modern […]
One of the unique features of Dutch painting is its interest in creating realistic scenes of everyday life which, paradoxically, contain symbolic content indicating that there is more to the […]
As I mentioned in my last post, my new article will deal with the background against which A Girl Interrupted at her Music was created. First of all, I would like […]
Due to the fact that this will be my last article, I have thought that it might be better to leave the curiosities and best parts to the end. In […]
Woman with a Water Jug, also known as Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, is a painting finished between 1660–1662 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer in the Baroque style. […]
The Geographer (der geograaf) is one of the few paintings in which Vermeer takes a man as the central and the only figure. This is an indoor scene from Vermeer […]
THE LETTER Every night Rainilda would dream of the letter. It was in her thoughts, on her mind, all day, every day. Every morning she looked out the window thinking […]
Dear classmates this post is only to let you know that I have just published my article about Young Woman with a Water Pitcher. I hope you like it! https://vermeer0708.wordpress.com/young-woman-with-a-water-pitcher-2/
This oil on canvas was created in 1657 and it is a genre (an interior) scene. Nowadays it is housed in Gemaldegalerie (Berlin). This painting depicts a corner of a room where […]
That is where they live. That is what they have. That is what they belong to. That is they and their lives. It is not a common neighbourhood in the […]
English for Special Purposes. Johannes Vermeer. The Little Street
– Artist: Johannes Vermeer – Year: c. 1667 – Type: Oil on canvas – Dimensions: 53 x 46.3cm Brushstrokes became freer and more expressive than in his earlier works: – […]
– The guitar was just coming into vogue in the late seventeenth century as a popular instrument for solo accompaniment. – The music was created, more audacious than the […]
Study of a Young Woman / Johannes Vermeer -Johannes Vermeer The yellow-jacketed girl (left) playing the guitar or cittern in the Kenwood picture also has the characteristic jaw formation of […]
Vermeer is known to have been extremely conscious about the real nature of colour, and about the fact that objects change in different circumstances and under different lights. In the […]
Vermeer is speaking to the main theme of his body of work, which is Temperance, or Moderation based on pure motives. The young woman in the Pitcher painting is prepared […]
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