“Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid”
This is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, it is supposed to be completed between the years 1670–1671, its dimensions are 72.2 cm × 59.5 cm (28.4 in × 23.4 in), its composition is […]
This is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, it is supposed to be completed between the years 1670–1671, its dimensions are 72.2 cm × 59.5 cm (28.4 in × 23.4 in), its composition is […]
The Astronomer is a painting finished about 1668 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is oil on canvas, 50 cm x 45 cm and it is on display at the […]
Why Johannes do you paint me young when I’ve seen the birth of light? Why with eyes down? If I should be ashamed of my own past… If you […]
Hendrik Kersten is a photograph who works in Amsterdam and uses his daughter and his model to evoke a past period already long gone but which can be seen through […]
Artículo Vermeer Cuando tienes que hacer un trabajo académico sobre cualquier tema lo primero de todo, después de haberlo seleccionado, es buscar información sobre él. En función de la que […]
Había ido a Viena, y una vez en la ciudad no me quedó más remedio que visitar sus museos. Esa mañana me tocaba ir al Kunsthistorisches. Paseaba por sus galerías […]
This is the story I wrote for Claire, with this the analysis I have already published should make sense. Magic Mirror in the Wall Lucette had just left her bedroom, […]
Here you have the story that I created for Claire Firth based on the painting called The Music Lesson: Dear John, I know that since you went to war […]
As I have mentioned in many other articles, one of the mist important elements that the spectator could see in The Music Lesson, is the mirror that is hung on […]
As it is known but many art specialists, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer became a master in the use of the camera obscura. But, what does this term mean? Well, […]
The painting I have been working on , The Music Lesson, has not only became an inspiration for other Dutch painters, but it has also served as an inspiration for […]
Many scholars have been intrigued by Vermeer’s use of maps or globes in many of his paintings. Here you have a list of some of the paintings of Vermeer in […]
Most of Vermeer’s paintings are never depicted looking out directly at the viewer. In fact, only three of his paintings portray women looking out at the viewer. This is the case of Lady […]
The camera obscura is an optical device that projects an image that is in the surroundings on a screen. It was use to make paintings, and it was one of […]
Vermeer painted his work entitled as The Little Street between 1657-1661, and is currently located in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. According to the information available at the essential vermeer webpage, the […]
This semester, I have been working on The Concert painted by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (c. 1664). In March 1990, it was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum […]
A woman of thirty pours the inch or so of milk left in a jug, sets the jug high on a shelf inside a small cupboard because the children from […]
Her hands know what to do: they dance, winding the threads around their tiny maypoles, trying each knot with surprising speed under the deep calm of that broad, honest face, […]
Mistress and Maid was painted around 1666 and 1667 in oli canvas. Nowadays it is located in The Frick Collection Museum, in New York. The general overview of the picture shows […]
View of an Interior, or The Slippers created: around 1658 This painting created by Samuel Van Hoogstraten is a subtly moralistic piece, a fascinating exercise in perspective, and a […]
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