Johannes Vermeer
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| - | {{Template}}'''Johannes Vermeer''' or '''Jan Vermeer''' (baptized [[October 31]] [[1632]], died [[December 15]] [[1675]]) was a [[Dutch people|Dutch]] painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of ordinary [[bourgeois]] life. His entire life was spent in the town of [[Delft]]. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial painter in his lifetime. He seems to have never been particularly wealthy, perhaps due to the fact that he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and eleven children in debt at his death. | + | {{Template}} |
| + | '''Johannes Vermeer''' or '''Jan Vermeer''' (baptized [[October 31]] [[1632]], died [[December 15]] [[1675]]) was a [[Dutch people|Dutch]] painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of ordinary [[bourgeois]] life. His entire life was spent in the town of [[Delft]]. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial painter in his lifetime. He seems to have never been particularly wealthy, perhaps due to the fact that he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and eleven children in debt at his death. | ||
| Virtually forgotten for nearly two hundred years, in 1866 the art critic [[Thoré Bürger]] published an essay attributing 66 pictures to him (only 35 paintings are firmly attributed to him today). Since that time Vermeer's reputation has grown, and he is now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the [[Dutch Golden Age]], and is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of [[light]] in his work. | Virtually forgotten for nearly two hundred years, in 1866 the art critic [[Thoré Bürger]] published an essay attributing 66 pictures to him (only 35 paintings are firmly attributed to him today). Since that time Vermeer's reputation has grown, and he is now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the [[Dutch Golden Age]], and is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of [[light]] in his work. | ||
| + | ==Legacy== | ||
| + | * Vermeer's ''View of Delft'' features in a pivotal sequence of [[Marcel Proust|Marcel Proust's]] ''[[In Search of Lost Time|The Captive]]''. | ||
| + | * The [[Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel)|book ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'']] and the [[Girl with a Pearl Earring (film)|film of the same name]] are named after the painting; they present a fictional account of its creation by Vermeer and his relationship with the model. | ||
| + | * [[Salvador Dalí]], with great admiration for Vermeer, painted his own version of ''The Lacemaker'' and pitted large copies of the original against a rhinoceros in some now-famous surrealist experiments. Dali also immortalized the [[Dutch Masters|Dutch Master]] in ''[[The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table]]'', 1934. | ||
| + | * Dutch composer [[Louis Andriessen]] based his opera, ''Writing to Vermeer'' (1997-98, libretto by Peter Greenaway), on the domestic life of Vermeer. | ||
| + | * Greenaway's own film ''[[A Zed & Two Noughts]]'' (1985) contains a plot line about an orthopedic surgeon named Van Meegeren who stages highly exact scenes from Vermeer paintings in order to paint copies of them. | ||
| + | * [[Han van Meegeren]] was a Dutch painter who worked in the classical tradition. Lured by the huge sums an authentic Vermeer would command, van Meegeren forged several works in Vermeer's style in several of his own paintings with the intention of selling them as works of Vermeer. | ||
| + | * Upon the rediscovery of Vermeer's work in the 19th century, several prominent Dutch artists, including [[Simon Duiker]], modelled their style on his work. | ||
| + | * Susan Vreeland's novel ''Girl in Hyacinthe Blue'' follows eight individuals with a relataionship to a painting of Vermeer. The novel follows a reverse chronology from the current period to the time of Vermeer. | ||
| + | * The [[young adult novel]] ''[[Chasing Vermeer]]'' by [[Blue Balliett]] centers around the fictitious theft of Vermeer's ''[[A Lady Writing a Letter|A Lady Writing]]. | ||
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Johannes Vermeer or Jan Vermeer (baptized October 31 1632, died December 15 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of ordinary bourgeois life. His entire life was spent in the town of Delft. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial painter in his lifetime. He seems to have never been particularly wealthy, perhaps due to the fact that he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and eleven children in debt at his death.
Virtually forgotten for nearly two hundred years, in 1866 the art critic Thoré Bürger published an essay attributing 66 pictures to him (only 35 paintings are firmly attributed to him today). Since that time Vermeer's reputation has grown, and he is now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age, and is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.
Legacy
- Vermeer's View of Delft features in a pivotal sequence of Marcel Proust's The Captive.
- The book Girl with a Pearl Earring and the film of the same name are named after the painting; they present a fictional account of its creation by Vermeer and his relationship with the model.
- Salvador Dalí, with great admiration for Vermeer, painted his own version of The Lacemaker and pitted large copies of the original against a rhinoceros in some now-famous surrealist experiments. Dali also immortalized the Dutch Master in The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table, 1934.
- Dutch composer Louis Andriessen based his opera, Writing to Vermeer (1997-98, libretto by Peter Greenaway), on the domestic life of Vermeer.
- Greenaway's own film A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) contains a plot line about an orthopedic surgeon named Van Meegeren who stages highly exact scenes from Vermeer paintings in order to paint copies of them.
- Han van Meegeren was a Dutch painter who worked in the classical tradition. Lured by the huge sums an authentic Vermeer would command, van Meegeren forged several works in Vermeer's style in several of his own paintings with the intention of selling them as works of Vermeer.
- Upon the rediscovery of Vermeer's work in the 19th century, several prominent Dutch artists, including Simon Duiker, modelled their style on his work.
- Susan Vreeland's novel Girl in Hyacinthe Blue follows eight individuals with a relataionship to a painting of Vermeer. The novel follows a reverse chronology from the current period to the time of Vermeer.
- The young adult novel Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett centers around the fictitious theft of Vermeer's A Lady Writing.
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