The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book Vermeer’s Maps by Rozemarijn Landsman (The Frick Collection and DelMonico Books, DAP, October 11, 2022). The maps’ characteristics would have been ...
Johannes Vermeer, "Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window" (1657-59) before and after restoration. (© Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; photos by Klut/Estel and ...
A major new Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam displays the artist's evocative and serene paintings of daily life – but they harbour secret, symbolic messages, writes Matthew Wilson.
“The most mysterious and beloved artist of all time.” Without a hint of apology, this is how the general director of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, Taco Dibbits, describes Vermeer. And it’s hard to disagree ...
Vermeer’s oeuvre may be slim—only 35 surviving works are widely attributed to the Dutch painter—but it casts a long shadow. Little is known of the artist himself, so much so he was dubbed “Sphinx of ...
This blockbuster at the Rijksmuseum, never to be repeated, pares the sphinx of Dutch art to the essence: 28 gemlike paintings. A detail of Johannes Vermeer’s “Mistress and Maid,” painted between 1664 ...
In its first special exhibition since its reopening, New York’s Frick Collection brings together three Johannes Vermeer paintings for “Vermeer’s Love Letters,” a new exhibition on view through August ...
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