Johannes vermeer

Jan Vermeer van Delft ( fragment ).

The “It’s Johannes Vermeer” collage of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age Johannes Vermeer’s most famous paintings (Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Milkmaid, Girl Interrupted at Her Music, ect.) is the best gift for who loves Johannes Vermeer and art.

Artist: Johannes Vermeer | Year (completed): 1668 | Period: Dutch Golden Age In The Astronomer, the scientist is depicted sitting at a table with a celestial globe, which is thought to have been created by Jodocus Hondius and displays the positions of the stars and constellations in the sky. The astronomer is holding open the book \

The work of Johannes Vermeer, is well known for many characteristics that are present in this painting. The use of yellow and blue, female models, and domestic scenes are all signatures of Vermeer.

Dutch master Johannes Vermeer was fascinated by fabric, and it informed the nature of his art on multiple levels. This significant connection to fabric began early in Vermeer’s childhood, through family connections to textiles, and it stayed with him for life. He spent his entire career exploring the way its draped, shimmering surface could add...

The subject of writing and receiving letters, which recurs frequently in Vermeer’s work, is given an exceptional sense of dramatic tension in this painting of two women arrested in some moment of mysterious crisis. The lack of final modelling in the mistress’ head and figure and the relatively plain background indicate that this late work by Vermeer was left unfinished. Nevertheless, the artist seldom if ever surpassed the subtly varied effects of light seen here as it gleams from the pearl…

Johannes Vermeer.....1665