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Johannes Vermeer
One of the most talented painters in the Dutch Golden Age , 1632-1675
was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours, sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. What strikes in most of his paintings is a certain love, which easily could be called a love sickness, for the people and the objects in his paintings. He created a world more perfect than any he had witnessed. After having been virtually forgotten for nearly one hundred years,
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Girl interrupted at her music
mk76
Painted c.1660
Oil on canvas
15 1/2x17 1/2in
Painting ID:: 31778
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Girl_interrupted_at_her_music
mk76
Painted c.1660
Oil on canvas
15 1/2x17 1/2in
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Details of Mistress and maid
mk76
Painted probable between 1665 and 1670
Oil on canvas
35 1/2x31in
Painting ID:: 31779
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Details_of_Mistress_and_maid
mk76
Painted probable between 1665 and 1670
Oil on canvas
35 1/2x31in
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Mistress and maid
mk76
Painted probable between 1665 and 1670
Oil on canvas
35 1/2x31in
Painting ID:: 31780
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Mistress_and_maid
mk76
Painted probable between 1665 and 1670
Oil on canvas
35 1/2x31in
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Recreation by our Gallery
mk79
Painting ID:: 32554
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Recreation_by_our_Gallery
mk79
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Woman Reading a Letter
mk164
c.1663-64
Painting ID:: 41516
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Woman_Reading_a_Letter
mk164
c.1663-64
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Johannes_Vermeer
One of the most talented painters in the Dutch Golden Age , 1632-1675
was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours, sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. What strikes in most of his paintings is a certain love, which easily could be called a love sickness, for the people and the objects in his paintings. He created a world more perfect than any he had witnessed. After having been virtually forgotten for nearly one hundred years,
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