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Johannes Vermeer Free FREE JOHANNES VERMEER PDF Mike Venezia | 32 pages | 01 Sep 2002 | Scholastic US | 9780516269993 | English | New York, NY, United States The Girl with a Pearl Earring, - by Johannes Vermeer Johannes Vermeer or Jan Vermeer baptized October 31,died at the age of 43, December 15, was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. His entire life was spent in the town of Delft. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death. Virtually forgotten for nearly one hundred years, Vermeer was rediscovered in when the art critic Thore Burger published an essay Johannes Vermeer 66 pictures to him only 35 paintings are firmly Johannes Vermeer to him today. Johannes Vermeer 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. Page 1 of 12 Paintings: Girl with a Pearl Earring detail-1 c. Report error on this page. Girl with a Pearl Earring c. Order a Hand-Painted Reproduction of this Painting. Johannes Vermeer baptized October 31,died at the age of 43, December 15, Johannes Vermeer or Jan Vermeer baptized October 31,died at Johannes Vermeer age of 43, Johannes Vermeer 15, was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. Click here for more. Popularity Alphabetical. The Astronomer c. The Milkmaid c. The Milkmaid. The Geographer c. The Kitchen Maid. The Little Street or Het Straatje. View of Delft Girl With A Red Hat. Young Woman with a Johannes Vermeer Jug The Glass Of Wine. View all Works. Newsletter For exclusive news and discounts Submit Email. This website is licensed under a Creative Johannes Vermeer License. Johannes Vermeer - 39 artworks - painting In Girl with a Pearl Earringone of Vermeer's most engaging images, a young girl dressed in Johannes Vermeer exotic turban turns and gazes at the viewer. Her liquid eyes and half-opened mouth impart the immediacy of her presence, yet her purity and her evocative costume give her a lasting Johannes Vermeer, unconstrained by time or place. The relatively large Johannes Vermeer of this figure reveals how Vermeer enhanced the sense of realism through his expressive paint techniques. For example, he enlivened the young girl's half smile with two small white dots on either side of her mouth, echoing the highlights in her eyes. He also ingeniously used his paints to capture the Johannes Vermeer of light falling across her features, turban, and ocher-colored jacket. He evoked the delicacy of her skin with a soft contour for her check, which he created by extending a thin glaze slightly over the edge of Johannes Vermeer thick impasto defining the flesh color. He indicated reflected light from the white color in the pearl earring, but also, and more subtly, in the shadows on her left cheek. Finally, he painted the shaded portion of the blue turban by covering a black under-pamt with freely applied glazes of natural ultramarine. The background of the Girl with Johannes Vermeer Pearl Earring does Johannes Vermeer appear as it does when it came off the Vermeer's easel some years Johannes Vermeer. Recent analysis demonstrates that the artist had painted a Johannes Vermeer "glaze" Johannes Vermeer green paint over the dark underpainting. Originally, the background must have appeared as a smooth, glossy, hard and deep translucent green. This tone set against the warm flesh tone probably produced a more vibrant optical effect than the one which can be observed today. Dark backgrounds were widely used in portraiture to enhance the three-dimensional effect of the figure. In fragment of his Johannes Vermeer on PaintingLeonardo da Vinci had noted that a dark background makes an object appear lighter Johannes Vermeer vice versa. The girl's enigmatic expression coupled with the mystery of her identity has led some to compare her to the equivocal subject in Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Unlike the Mona Lisa, however, Girl with a Pearl Earring is Johannes Vermeer a portrait but a tronie, a Dutch term for a character or type of person. Despite the feeling of immediacy Vermeer thus creates, the young girl's idealized image conveys a sense of timeless beauty. Vermeer worked as a classicist, Johannes Vermeer his images to express lasting rather than transient qualities of life. Inthe British graffiti artist Banksy put his own spin Johannes Vermeer the painting. He reproduced the girl on the side of a building in Bristol with an alarm box on the wall in place of the pearl earring. The Dutch word "tronie," translates roughly as "face. Tronies typically feature an exaggerated facial expression or a subject in some sort of costume such as the girl's exotic turban. Some art critics call Vermeer's painting the "Mona Lisa of the North. Although the artist was often in dire financial straits and had a large family to support, the ultramarine-toned paint he used for the girl's bright blue turban was expensive. It came from a powder of crushed lapis lazuli, a rare semi-precious stone. Not only did the paint possess a unique luminescence, it also added to the material value of the artwork. While "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is a priceless masterpiece today, the only time anyone purchased it for money was inand the winning bid was just two guilders plus a nominal commission. Vermeer's Johannes Vermeer is rich in craquelure. Johannes Vermeer other words, the paint has Johannes Vermeer into a network of fine lines over the centuries. Not only are these due to age, but also to impacts, such as taps during framing and pressure on the canvas. Researchers studying the painting in determined that some of the cracking, especially the darker cracks along the subject's face, are due to a restoration when technicians used a material containing tree resin to refresh the Johannes Vermeer. In Johannes Vermeer, author Tracy Chevalier published an historical novel based on the painting. Hollywood made the novel into a film, "Girl with a Pearl Earring," in The artwork has had several titles over the centuries. Historians believe that it originally was listed in Vermeer's estate inventory as a tronie done in the Turkish Johannes Vermeer. Three decades later, a sale catalog called the painting "Portrait in Antique Costume. Toggle Johannes Vermeer Johannes Vermeer. The Girl with a Earl Earring. The Art of Painting. The Milkmaid. View of Delft. Woman with a Water Jug. The Lacemaker. The Little Street. The Music Lesson. Woman Holding a Balance. All Rights Reserved. Click Image to view detail. The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Banksy. Johannes Vermeer: Complete Vermeer Paintings Analysis Jan Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch masters, is responsible for some of the Johannes Vermeer iconic imagery in the history of art, such as The Girl with a Pearl Earring ca. His artworks are a rarity, with only around 36 known paintings attributed to him. Jan Vermeer was Johannes Vermeer in in Delft. In the same year, he also married Catharina Bolnes. His mother in-law, Maria Thins, possessed a moderate collection of paintings by the Utrecht Caravaggistipainters that were profoundly influenced by the art of Caravaggio. In the latter part of the s, Vermeer gradually switched Johannes Vermeer genre painting, that depicted intimate scenes of domestic life. His most famous paintings were interior Johannes Vermeer of young women engaged in Johannes Vermeer and writing, playing musical instruments and doing domestic work. In Young Woman with a Water Pitcher ca. In the quiet scene, Vermeer expressed the beauty and harmony found Johannes Vermeer everyday objects and activities. During his career, the artist showed interest in camera obscura, an optical tool that could project imagery on a flat surface. Some have argued that this interest extended into his method of painting, and that he used the device to plan Johannes Vermeer arrangements of his compositions. He died in in Delft, leaving his wife and children with enormous debt. Because he only garnered moderate success and encountered unfortunate circumstances at the end of his life, Vermeer was largely forgotten by history. He was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime but evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his Johannes Vermeer, perhaps because he Johannes Vermeer relatively few paintings. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, and frequently used very expensive pigments. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. Vermeer painted Johannes Vermeer domestic interior scenes. He was barely mentioned in Arnold Houbraken's major source book on 17th-century Johannes Vermeer painting Grand Theatre of Dutch Johannes Vermeer and Women Johannes Vermeerand was thus omitted from subsequent surveys of Dutch art Johannes Vermeer nearly two centuries. Since that time, Vermeer's reputation has grown, and he is now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. Relatively little was known about Vermeer's life until recently. He seems to have been devoted exclusively to his art, living out his life in the city of Delft. Johannes Vermeer was baptized in the Reformed Church on 31 October Johannes Vermeer His father Reijnier Janszoon was a middle-class worker of silk or caffa a mixture of silk and cotton or wool. As an apprentice in Amsterdam, Reijnier lived on fashionable Sint Antoniesbreestraat, a street with many resident painters at the time.
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