Vermeer. L'opera completa

I simply adore Vermeer. Many years ago I saw The Astronomer, at the Louvre, and I have never looked back. Since then I have seen both Lady Standing at a Virginal and Lady Seated at a Virginal [National Gallery], The Allegory of Faith, Portrait of a Young Womand, Woman with a Water Jug and A Girl Asle Leggi tutto

I enjoy reading about the societal messages and symbolism in 17th Century Dutch art. Who knew a hanging chicken represented unbridled carnal desire? Roasted, maybe, with all the trimmings. But, raw and just plucked?

Lawrence Gowing understands Vermeer's characters and the worlds they inhabit--all interiors of rooms--in a very Jamesian manner. He details, at one with Vermeer, how the singular detachment, refinement, the hieratic finesse and immaculate gestures of withdrawal of his subjects, and above all how lig Leggi tutto

Mi misión es leer todos los libros escritos sobre el pintor de Deltf. Los misterios de Johannes Vermeer me producen una insaciable curiosidad. ¿Quién era Vermeer? ¿Por qué pintaba lo que pintaba y como lo hacía?. En este libro Lawrence Gowing hace un recorrido por todas las pinturas de Vermeer, comp Leggi tutto

Vermeer doesn't seem to have painted much - or at least not many of his painting have survived. They're all in this book and (not to hurt his feelings or anything) there were only a couple I really liked. The Little Street, View of Delft, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher