Articles related to "Johannes Vermeer"



17th Century Painter of Light
Johannes Vermeer was a significant genre painter whose artistic influence has far outlived him.
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Artists and Fame - Johannes Vermeer
Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch painter of the Baroque era whose specialization in depicting ordinary scenes in domestic interior made him a successful businessman.
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Johannes Vermeer
A look at the life and painting techniques of Johannes Vermeer, painter of "Girl with a Pearl Earring."
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Johannes Vermeer
His artwork - forgotten for 200 years until discussed by art critic Thoré-Bürger in 1866 - has earned him respect as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.
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Johannes Vermeer
Sites on Dutch artist Jan Vermeer
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See Dutch Masters in the Mauritshuis, the Hague
The Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery in The Hague is a top art collection with famous paintings by Dutch masters including Vermeer, Steen, Brueghel, and Rembrandt.
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Vermeer and His Use of the Camera Obscura
Steadman discusses speculation and controversy surrounding claims that the great seventeenth-century Dutch artist, Johannes Vermeer, used the camera obscura.
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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay get caught up in an international art theft and use a series of unrelated coincidences, puzzles and patterns of twelve to solve the crime.
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Van Gogh and Composition
How symmetry and asymmetry affect the composition and aesthetics of an artist's drawing or painting, as shown by Van Gogh's works.
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Vermeer's Milkmaid at the Met
To commemorate Henry Hudson's voyage from the Netherlands to New York the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is lending Johannes Vermeer's The Milkmaid to the Met Museum.
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Name the Dutch Artist
Test your knowledge of these 17th-century Dutch painters and absorb perhaps-obscure facts about them.
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Photography and Art
Principles of composition and studying how famous painters use light and shadow helps fine art photographers improve the results from their digital cameras.
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Visiting New York City Thanksgiving Weekend
The Big Apple opens the holiday season with the Thanksgiving Parade, lots of Christmas shopping and sightseeing opportunities and great Broadway shows
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Vice as Human, not Gendered
Two examples by Dutch Baroque artist Judith Leyster break from the "woman as Eve" paradigm and place the lieklihood of vice on both sexes.
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What Does What I Read Illustrate About Me?
What does what I read illustrate about me? For school, I had to give a presentation about what my reading illustrated about me. While this struck me at first as a dull task, it gave me reason for self-assessment.
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