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View on Delft.
Painting ID:: 70647
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Johannes Vermeer
View on Delft.
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *96.5 ?? 117.5 cm
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Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
Painting ID:: 70738
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Johannes Vermeer
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *160 ?? 142 cm
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Girl reading a letter by an open window
Painting ID:: 70919
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Johannes Vermeer
Girl reading a letter by an open window
English: Oil on canvas
Dimensions English: 83 x 64.5 cm
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Private Collection
Painting ID:: 72124
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Johannes Vermeer
Private Collection
1655; Oil on Canvas; 40x32
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The Wine Glass
Painting ID:: 72137
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Johannes Vermeer
The Wine Glass
c. 1660-1661
Oil on canvas
65 X 77 cm (25.59 X 30.31 in)
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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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