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It has been suggested that Vermeer traced the images of a camera obscura in his paintings.
My explanation for this very curious result is that Vermeer had a camera obscura with a lens at the painting's viewpoint.
No doubt Vermeer owed a particular debt to Delft, but it is the great dichotomies of Dutch art generally that nourished his genius.
And yet Vermeer seems willing to set down the areas of light and shade just as they occur.
The Golden Age produced the works of Rembrandt, Vermeer and other Dutch masters.
Finally, it has been suggested by Wilenski and others that Vermeer might have traced over images reflected in mirrors.
In 1989 BBC Television built a full-size version of the room for a programme devoted to this work on Vermeer.
In the novel, a young housemaid named Griet innocently entrances Vermeer who comes to see her as a sacred refuge from a soulless marriage.
As a result, a number of works previously thought to be by Vermeer were deattributed, including Young Woman Seated at the Virginals.
She has been variously likened to David Bowie, a painting by Vermeer and a face from a silent movie.
Especially famous are the work of such masters as Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Vermeer, and Jacob van Ruisdael.
Despite the efforts of some art historians to suggest that Vermeer literally transcribed what he saw with optical aids, such was not the case.
Notice the Mauritshuis with Vermeer masterpieces and the Gemeentemuseum with its collection of Mondrian.
Have we forgotten Vermeer, master of light, who only painted a mere thirty paintings in his lifetime?
You might say that Vermeer apotheosizes material prosperity — not that he was ever well-off himself.
I have been to diabolically crowded shows of art by van Gogh, Vermeer, and Caravaggio, at the Met and elsewhere.
In the film, Tim says he is 90 percent convinced that Vermeer used a device like his.
The implication of Pennell's comment is that Vermeer might have copied or traced the outlines of an image and in this way obtained relative sizes for the objects depicted.
Vermeer is the only painter known to have ground lapis lazuli into tiny particles of ultramarine and painted it on the background.
But Vermeer was equal to the task as the hulking striker kicked himself for wasting an odds-on goal.
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Even nowadays the public has not been converted to the idea of the greatness of Vermeer.
In 1696 there were 21 pictures of Vermeer sold at public auction in Amsterdam.
There is a Vermeer in Berlin on which he has set his heart, and another in Dresden.
Tim's Vermeer 80mins 12A IT'S not easy to plug a film about paint drying, which occupies a good deal of this documentary's running time.
A contemporary resident of Delft was Johannes Vermeer, the son of an innkeeper and picture dealer.
The Vermeer of Haarlem was to blame for this swollen catalogue.
South Eugene baseball coach Chris Vermeer has resigned after seven seasons at the school.
At last, in a small room, Philip stopped before The Lacemaker of Vermeer van Delft.
Christie's auction house says science has confirmed that a disputed painting is the work of Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.
Presented by Penn and directed by Teller, Tim's Vermeer explores how 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer created his magnificent, almost photo-perfect paintings.
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