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Brieflesendes Madchen am offenen Fenster Painting ID:: 67851
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Johannes Vermeer Brieflesendes Madchen am offenen Fenster Technique Deutsch: Öl auf Leinwand
English: Oil on canvas
Current location Deutsch: Gemäldegalerie Deutsch: Dresden
Notes Deutsch: Genremalerei
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Girl reading a letter by an open window Painting ID:: 67860
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Johannes Vermeer Girl reading a letter by an open window Technique Deutsch: Öl auf Leinwand
English: Oil on canvas
Dimensions English: 83 x 64.5 cm
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Youg woman playing a guitar Painting ID:: 67861
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Johannes Vermeer Youg woman playing a guitar Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 53 X 46.3 cm
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Christ in the House of Martha and Mary Painting ID:: 68479
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Johannes Vermeer Christ in the House of Martha and Mary before 1655(1655)
Oil on canvas
160 ?? 142 cm (62.99 ?? 55.91 in)
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Youg woman playing a guitar Painting ID:: 70621
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Johannes Vermeer Youg woman playing a guitar Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *53 ?? 46.3 cm
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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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