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Earlier, the death of Vermeer’s father in 1652 had been a financial blow. The older man left behind a debt of 250 guilders—equivalent to six months’ pay for a carpenter at the time—and Vermeer and his wife Catharina Bolenes, whom he married a few months after his father’s death, were liable for the debt. As a consequence in part of his protracted financial distress, Vermeer witnessed the death of four of his children. Vermeer's A Lady Writing (1664-67) which can be found on the cover of Vermeer: The Complete Paintings (2008) by Walter Liedtke National Gallery of Art, Washington; Havemeyer gift Vermeer: The Complete Paintings (2008) by Walter Liedtke Loan Exhibition in Honor of Royal Cortizzos and His 50 Years of Criticism in the New York Herald Tribune. M. Knoedler & Co. I thought I knew Vermeer’s paintings well, but I was startled to discover new details, such as how often he uses red, sometimes as an accent—ribbons in hair or as a tie on a yellow skirt; thread from a sewing box—or as an item of clothing. The Milkmaid is dominated in our minds’ eyes by blue and yellow, yet she wears a red skirt. And throughout the galleries, highlights gleam and shine like silent, spangled stars. Feb. 27, 2023- artnet news - " The Dutch Are Going Wild for a Reality TV Show Where Artists Compete to Paint Vermeer’s Lost Masterpieces" - Sarah Cascone

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Feb. 17, 2023 - THE ART NEWSPAPER - " The Big Review: Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum ★★★★★" - Tracy Chevalier Girl with a Flute (204–208, no. 23 as "Young Girl with a Flute" by Circle of Johannes Vermeer and ill.) We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin.Temple, A. G. Catalogue of the Loan Collection of Pictures. Art Gallery of the Corporation of London. Exhibition of Works by Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of British School. Royal Academy of Arts. Revelatory – and yet profoundly mysterious; that is where the show starts. It opens outdoors, with the View of Delft and The Little Street, and then turns inwards, asking us to look ever closer at the interiors. A box of light, a figure, some props, occasionally a framed picture: the means appear so restricted, yet the scenes are mesmerisingly various. Exhibition of works by late members of the Royal Academy and of the Iveagh bequest of works by old masters (Kenwood collection). Royal Academy, London This is surely where the notion of secular madonnas enters in. For what is the girl there for, in Vermeer, if not to receive the extraordinary beneficence of his light – a light like no other, more than any real room could contain. For some it is supernatural, to others sacred; it feels the very essence of grace.

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Catalogue titles which are preceded by the WorldCat icon con are linked to WorldCat, the world's largest online library catalogue. The show includes masterpieces such as Girl with a Pearl Earring (Mauritshuis, The Hague), The Geographer ( Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main), Letter Writer and Maid ( National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin) and Woman Holding a Balance ( National Gallery of Art, Washington), along with works that have never before been accessible to visitors in the Netherlands, such as the recently-restored Woman reading a letter at the open window from the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden. The present show includes four paintings from the Rijksmuseum’s collection, three others from the Maurithuis (a famed art museum in The Hague) and 21 other paintings loaned from private collections and institutions in six different countries. Out of a total of only 37 paintings that art historians generally attribute to Vermeer, 28 are now on display under one roof. Four of the works, in fact, are being displayed in the Netherlands for the first time in 200 years. Vermeer’s life Evening Standard - "Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - a once in a generation show, don’t miss it" - Nancy Durrant - Feb. 7, 2023 Suzanne Raes' documentary Close to Vermeer (Dicht bij Vermeer) has been nominated at the Netherlands Film Festival to be held in Utrecht from 22 to 29 September 2023. Close to Vermeer will be viewed on Tuesday, 26 September, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. at the Louis Hartlooper Complex 3.Die Klessmann, Rüdiger. Die Sprache der Bilder: Realität und Bedeutung in der niederlandischen Malerei des 17 Jarhunderts Visitors to the exhibition can lean on velvet covered barriers to take a closer look at masterpieces such as View of Delft (1660-61), left, and The Little Street (1658-59) Johannes Vermeer: der Geograph und der Astronom nach 200 Jahren wieder vereint. Städelschen Kunstinstitut. Paintings from the Berlin Museums Exhibited in Co-operation with The Department of The Army. Cleveland Museum of Art.

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A girl reading or writing a letter, a hardworking lacemaker concentrated on her difficult job, a milkmaid pouring milk from a ceramic jar, all in the intimacy of a room, surrounded by familiar objets; some unaware of spectators, others looking at us, interrupted in their task, as if wondering why we’re there, in the doorway, “like guests infringing on a private moment,” as described by The Guardian, “hearing the sound of the pouring milk and smelling the granular crust of the bread and its tufts of crumb.” Masterpieces of painting saved from the German Salt Mines: Property of the Berlin Museums. The Art Institute of Chicago. The Milkmaid" by Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting: Masterworks from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. The National Art Center.And the pictures? Like preachers in the pulpit, they appear behind semi-circular balustrades, each accompanied only by a title and date. Vermeer converted to Catholicism, but, here, there’s a Protestant directness to the relationship between viewer and art. A milkmaid preparing bread pudding; well-to-do women reading and writing letters, fiddling with jewellery, flirting, making music: the subjects of these paintings, from the third quarter of the 17th century, are so well known, it seems, they require no explanation. Loan Exhibition of Allied Art for Allied Aid for the Benefit of the Red Cross War Relief Fund. M. Knoedler & Co. Well, in the last twenty years I’ve done my very best to present the most thorough and balanced view of Vermeer’s art on the Essential Vermeer capitalizing on the immense and largely unexplored potential of the internet in regards to art historical issues. One of my top priorities has been objectivity. Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces from the Leiden collection and the Musée du Louvre. Louvre Abu Dhabi. Exhibition of Works by Late Members of the Royal Academy and of the Iveagh Bequest of Works by Old Masters (Kenwood collection)

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Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art: Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum. Vancouver Art Gallery. The cult of Vermeer, which had been practiced decorously by connoisseurs for at least a century — Marcel Proust and Edith Wharton were acolytes — became an international, ever-growing, pop-culture phenomenon, the stuff of novels, movies, popular documentaries and branded onto clothing, housewares and tchotchkes,” according to the Washington Post. Two documentaries have been made about the exhibition. Director Suzanne Raes followed the preparations for the exhibition for her film Close to Vermeer. The Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition appears in the Exhibition on Screen series ( trailer) .No doubt the latest research has brought Vermeer’s 43 years “closer” to us. However, in comparison with our knowledge about other Dutch masters of his time, we still know relatively little about the facts of Vermeer’s life. Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer. An exhibition from the British Royal Collection. The Mauritshuis. Born in 1632 and died in 1675, Vermeer is considered the most enigmatic of the Dutch masters because, aside from his known canvases, there’s nothing of him to offer even clues: no portraits, letters, writings or diary. Feb. 10, 2023 - ARTnews - " The Largest Exhibition of Johannes Vermeer’s Paintings Opens at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum" - Francesca Aton Exposition rétrospective tableaux anciens empruntés aux galeries particulières. Palais des Champs-Elysées.