Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer (, , see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. He produced relatively few paintings, primarily earning his living as an art dealer. He was not wealthy; at his death, his wife was left in debt.Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, and frequently used very expensive pigments. He is particularly renowned for making masterful use of light in his work. "Almost all his paintings", Hans Koningsberger wrote, "are apparently set in two smallish rooms in his house in Delft; they show the same furniture and decorations in various arrangements and they often portray the same people, mostly women."
The modest celebrity he enjoyed during his life gave way to obscurity after his death. He was barely mentioned in Arnold Houbraken's major source book on 17th-century Dutch painting (''Grand Theatre of Dutch Painters and Women Artists'', published 1718) and, as a result, was omitted from subsequent surveys of Dutch art for nearly two centuries.}} In the 19th century, Vermeer was rediscovered by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Théophile Thoré-Bürger, who published an essay attributing 66 pictures to him, although only 34 paintings are universally attributed to him today. Since that time, Vermeer's reputation has grown enormously. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1978
Published 1978
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1963
Published 1963
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1995
Published 1995
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 2000
Published 2000
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1967
Published 1967
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1958
Published 1958
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1964
Published 1964
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1965
Published 1965
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1967
Published 1967
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1949
Published 1949
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1995
Published 1995
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1995
Published 1995
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1970
Published 1970
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1924
Published 1924
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1958
Published 1958
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1954
Published 1954
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by Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
Published 1940
Published 1940
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by Antonini, Agnese
Published 2007
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by Snow, Edward A.
Published 1994
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by Villa, Renzo, 1948-
Published 2012
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