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-	{{Template}}	+	{{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.
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		+	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.
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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.