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 ...
In his recently published biography of Johannes Vermeer, the UK art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon outlines how the patrons Maria de Knuijt and her husband Pieter Claesz van Ruijven commissioned most ...
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 ...
Johannes Vermeer, "Woman Writing a Letter with Her Maid" (c. 1670–72), oil on canvas; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin (image © National Gallery of Ireland ...
“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 ...
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 ...
(RNS) — Two views from the past.
Johannes Vermeer's "Allegory of the Catholic Faith" includes evidence that the Jesuit perspective on optics shaped how the artist approached his paintings. Photo from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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