The strangeness of Vermeer. (Johannes Vermeer, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)

From: Art in America | Date: May 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

This exhibition brings together 21 out of the 30-some paintings by Vermeer extent, and gives a fresh perspective on his art. His depictions of women and his immediate world reveal how he departed form the 17th century Dutch tradition.

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Vermeer's paintings are familiar from countless reproductions, and most of them are not too difficult to get to in major museums in America and Europe. Why go to the trouble, and take the risk, of making an exhibition out of as many of them as can be borrowed? The question went through my mind when the Vermeer show [ended in ...

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