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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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The Girl with a Wine Glass,
The Girl with a Wine Glass, 1660
Painting ID:: 61435
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The_Girl_with_a_Wine_Glass,
The Girl with a Wine Glass, 1660
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View of Delft,
View of Delft, 1660-61
Painting ID:: 61436
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View_of_Delft,
View of Delft, 1660-61
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Officer and a Laughing Girl,
Officer and a Laughing Girl, 1657-59
Painting ID:: 61437
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Officer_and_a_Laughing_Girl,
Officer and a Laughing Girl, 1657-59
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The Little Street,
The Little Street, 1657/58
Painting ID:: 61438
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The_Little_Street,
The Little Street, 1657/58
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A Young Woman Seated at the Virginal with a painting of Dirck van Baburen in the background
A Young Woman Seated at the Virginal (1670) with a painting of Dirck van Baburen in the background
Painting ID:: 61439
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A Young Woman Seated at the Virginal (1670) with a painting of Dirck van Baburen in the background
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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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