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The Schilderconst
Painting ID:: 42722
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Johannes Vermeer
The Schilderconst
MK169
ca. 1670 Cloth
120x100cm
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Astronomers
Painting ID:: 57299
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Johannes Vermeer
Astronomers
mk255 for in 1668. 0.51 x 0.45 meters canvas. Paris, the Louvre
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Lace embroidery woman
Painting ID:: 57300
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Johannes Vermeer
Lace embroidery woman
mk255 for in the years 1669-1670. 0.24 x 0.21 meters canvas. Paris, the Louvre
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Girl with a Pearl Earring,
Painting ID:: 61433
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Johannes Vermeer
Girl with a Pearl Earring,
Girl with a Pearl Earring, known as the "Mona Lisa of the North"
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Milkmaid
Painting ID:: 61434
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Johannes Vermeer
Milkmaid
Milkmaid (1658-1660)
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Johannes Vermeer
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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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