Jan Vermeer - Finestre sull'Arte

Is there a collective identity to which we conform? In Guarene the reflection of twenty artists

From Sept. 23 to Nov. 19, 2023, at the Palazzo Re Rebaudengo in Guarene (Cuneo), the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents Who Will Be, curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol with Michele Bertolino. An exhibition path articulated through the works...
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Supercult. Arthur Wheelock and Ben Broos on Jan Vermeer.

This young girl stares at the concerning with her liquid eyes and half-open mouth and in the process radiates purity, drawing all gazes to her. Her soft, smooth skin is as spotless as the surface of her large, tear-shaped pearl earring. Like a vision...
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Two new facts about Johannes Vermeer's life discovered

Two new discoveries about the life of Johannes Vermeer (Delft, 1632 - 1675), the great seventeenth-century Dutch artist, have emerged during preparations for the exhibition Vermeer's Delft that will be hosted by the Prinsenhof Museum in Delft, the pa...
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Rijksmuseum, masterpieces for major Vermeer exhibition announced. New research on some famous paintings

Opening on Feb. 10 and on view until June 4, 2023, is the major exhibition that the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is dedicating to Johannes Vermeer, showcasing works by the celebrated artist from around the world. A team of curators, conservators and rese...
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Did Vermeer have a workshop? Washington announces groundbreaking discoveries about the artist

In the collective imagination, Jan Vermeer is considered a solitary genius. In reality, he may have had a workshop and collaborators who had to help him realize his works. This is the conclusion reached by the National Gallery in Washington on the ba...
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Washington, D.C., Vermeer exhibition reveals new findings on artist's masterpieces and true authorship

From Oct. 8, 2022 to Jan. 8, 2023, the National Gallery of Art in Washington will present Vermeer's Secrets exhibition, during which the museum will unveil new discoveries about paintings by Jan Vermeer that it holds. Taking advantage of the museum'...
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Dresden exhibits for the first time the restored Vermeer that revealed the hidden Cupid

The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden will exhibit, for the first time since a restoration that revealed the figure of a Cupid, Dutch painter Jan Vermeer 's painting entitled Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window. The work is one of the a...
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From Vermeer to Rembrandt, a major exhibition on the Dutch Golden Age at the New York Metropolitan

A nearly two-year-long exhibition (Oct. 16, 2018 to Oct. 1, 2020) at the Metropolitan Museum in New York aims to put the Dutch Golden Age paintings held at the U.S. museum in a new light: the exhibition, titled In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpiec...
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