Johannes Vermeer

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Johannes
Vermeer
The exquisite paintings of Johannes Vermeer, with their luminous colors and gradations of reflected light, are admired by art lovers everywhere. This book is the catalogue of the first exhibition ever devoted exclusively to Vermeer, co-organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague. In these pages, an international team of scholars presents ideas about Vermeer's creative process, critical fortune, and technical means. The great seventeenth-century Dutch painter is first discussed in the context of his native city of Delft, and the essays that follow examine Vermeer's "modern" themes; his critical reputation and its development, over the years, beyond Delft; and his use of perspective. Wide-ranging discussions and theories on such issues as the identity of Vermeer's patrons and his use of the camera obscura are included. An art historical interpretation for each exhibited painting is followed by a... Tovább

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Johannes
Vermeer
The exquisite paintings of Johannes Vermeer, with their luminous colors and gradations of reflected light, are admired by art lovers everywhere. This book is the catalogue of the first exhibition ever devoted exclusively to Vermeer, co-organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague. In these pages, an international team of scholars presents ideas about Vermeer's creative process, critical fortune, and technical means. The great seventeenth-century Dutch painter is first discussed in the context of his native city of Delft, and the essays that follow examine Vermeer's "modern" themes; his critical reputation and its development, over the years, beyond Delft; and his use of perspective. Wide-ranging discussions and theories on such issues as the identity of Vermeer's patrons and his use of the camera obscura are included. An art historical interpretation for each exhibited painting is followed by a lively discussion of provenance, further bolstered by evidence of Vermeer's working methods. Infrared reflecto-grams, x-radiographs, and pigment analyses are among the means used by the authors to reveal some of the secrets of Vermeer's wonderfully elusive artistry. Lavishly illustrated with full-page color reproductions and details of the twenty-three paintings exhibited, this book also includes color plates of all of Vermeer's other surviving paintings. It is certain to appeal to all devotees of Dutch art. Vissza