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"Johannes Vermeer's intensely quiet and enigmatic paintings invite the viewer into a private world, often prompting more questions than answers. Who is being portrayed? Are his subjects real or imagined? And how did he create such an unrivaled sense of intimacy? Bringing together diverse s...
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Thames & Hudson,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Dutch German |
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| Summary: |
"Johannes Vermeer's intensely quiet and enigmatic paintings invite the viewer into a private world, often prompting more questions than answers. Who is being portrayed? Are his subjects real or imagined? And how did he create such an unrivaled sense of intimacy? Bringing together diverse strands of the Dutch master's professional and private worlds, this is the first major authoritative study of Vermeer's life and work for many years shedding light on all thirty-seven of his paintings. With a wide selection of contextual illustrations, commentaries and up-to-date research by distinguished international Vermeer scholars, here is the definitive volume on the most admired of all seventeenth-century Dutch masters, one of the world's greatest artists." -- |
| Item Description: |
"Published to accompany the Vermeer exhibition held at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 10 February to 4 June 2023"--Colophon. "Foreword" signed in print (page 21): Taco Dibbits, General Director, Rijksmuseum. |
| Carrier Form: | 317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles (some color), maps ; 27 x 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-315) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780500026724 0500026726 9780500027332 0500027331 |
| Index Number: | ND653 |
| CLC: | J205.563-28 |
| Call Number: | J205.563-28/V523-1 |
| Contents: |
The oeuvre of Johannes Vermeer -- Note from the editors / Foreword / Johannes Vermeer (Delft 1632-1675): modestly masterful / Closer to Vermeer: a look inside the family home of the Delft painter / Vermeer's pictorial world / Early ambitions: Vermeer's journey from Bible to brothel / Venturing into town / In search of the perfect illusion of space / Windows between outer and inner worlds / Fashionable intruders / At a distance / Up close / Vermeer's tronies: an outward gaze of connection / Musical appeal / Letters: the world outside inside / The entire world inside / Paths to inner values / Ambitions of eternal renown: the art of painting / Johannes Vermeer: list of works, with provenance and literature / The estate inventory of Catharina Bolnes. |