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Vermeer's Hat

Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 159691727X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Vermeer's Hat written by Timothy Brook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global. A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another canvas, fruit spills from a blue-and-white porcelain bowl. Familiar images that captivate us with their beauty--but as Timothy Brook shows us, these intimate pictures actually give us a remarkable view of an expanding world. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur from North America, and it was beaver pelts from America that financed the voyages of explorers seeking routes to China-prized for the porcelains so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time, including Vermeer's. In this dazzling history, Timothy Brook uses Vermeer's works, and other contemporary images from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to trace the rapidly growing web of global trade, and the explosive, transforming, and sometimes destructive changes it wrought in the age when globalization really began.

The World of Vermeer 1632-1675

Author : Hans Koningsberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Vermeer 1632-1675 written by Hans Koningsberger and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Johannes Vermeer

Author : Celeste Brusati
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Johannes Vermeer written by Celeste Brusati and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vermeer's Secret World

Author : Vincent Etienne
Publisher : Prestel Pub
ISBN 13 : 9783791339870
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Vermeer's Secret World written by Vincent Etienne and published by Prestel Pub. This book was released on 2008 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the work of the influential Dutch painter, looking at common themes and the sense of mystery often evoked by his paintings.

The World of Vermeer

Author : Hans Koning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (699 download)

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Download or read book The World of Vermeer written by Hans Koning and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vermeer and the Invention of Seeing

Author : Bryan Jay Wolf
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226905044
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Vermeer and the Invention of Seeing written by Bryan Jay Wolf and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The result is a Vermeer we have not seen before: a painter whose serene spaces and calm subjects incorporate within themselves, however obliquely, the world's troubles. Vermeer abandons what his predecessors had labored so carefully to achieve: legible spaces, a world of moral clarity defined by the pressure of a hand against a table or the scatter of light across a bare wall. Instead Vermeer complicated Dutch domestic art and invented what has puzzled and captivated his admirers ever since: the odd daubs of white pigment, dancing across the plane of the canvas; patches of blurred surface, contradicting the painting's illusionism without explanation; and the querulous silence that endows his women with secrets they dare not reveal.".

Vermeer's World

Author : Irene Netta
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783791330808
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Vermeer's World written by Irene Netta and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insight into the life and works of 17th-century Dutch artist, Jan Vermeer, this book focuses on life in Vermeer's native city, Delft, a prosperous Dutch seaport. Reproductions of the 35 paintings known to be authentic are included.

Vermeer and His World, 1632-1675

Author : Serena Cant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848660014
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Vermeer and His World, 1632-1675 written by Serena Cant and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den hollandske maler Vermeers liv og værk. Med gengivelser og analyser af værkerne

Vermeer and the Art of Love Hb

Author : GEORGIEVSKA-SHI..
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781848224896
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Vermeer and the Art of Love Hb written by GEORGIEVSKA-SHI.. and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2022-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vermeer and the Art of Love is about the emotions evoked in those elegant interiors in which a young woman may be writing a letter to her absent beloved or playing a virginal in the presence of an admirer. But it is also about the love we sense in the painter's attentiveness to every detail within those rooms, which lends even the most mundane of objects the quality of something extraordinary. In this engaging and beautifully illustrated book, Georgievska-Shine uncovers the ways in which Vermeer challenges the dichotomies between 'good' and 'bad' love, the sensual and the spiritual, placing him within the context of his contemporaries to give the reader a fascinating insight into his unique understanding and interpretation of the subject.

The World of Vermeer, 1632-1675 ; Hans Koningsberger & the Editors of Time-Life Books

Author : Hans Koningsberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The World of Vermeer, 1632-1675 ; Hans Koningsberger & the Editors of Time-Life Books written by Hans Koningsberger and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vermeer

Author : Renzo Villa
Publisher : Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 13 : 9788836624140
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Vermeer written by Renzo Villa and published by Silvana Editoriale. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume--the new standard Vermeer monograph--reproduces all 34 paintings, augmenting each with close-ups that lay bare the loving care Vermeer lavished upon each painstaking work." from publisher's website

Traces of Vermeer

Author : Jane Jelley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192506900
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Traces of Vermeer written by Jane Jelley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; the glimmer of satin, silver, and linen; we see the softness of a hand on a lute string or letter. We recognise the distilled impression of a moment of time; and we feel it to be real. We might hope for some answers from the experts, but they are confounded too. Even with the modern technology available, they do not know why there is an absence of any preliminary drawing; why there are shifts in focus; and why his pictures are unusually blurred. Some wonder if he might possibly have used a camera obscura to capture what he saw before him. The few traces Vermeer has left behind tell us little: there are no letters or diaries; and no reports of him at work. Jane Jelley has taken a new path in this detective story. A painter herself, she has worked with the materials of his time: the cochineal insect and lapis lazuli; the sheep bones, soot, earth and rust. She shows us how painters made their pictures layer by layer; she investigates old secrets; and hears travellers' tales. She explores how Vermeer could have used a lens in the creation of his masterpieces. The clues were there all along. After all this time, now we can unlock the studio door, and catch a glimpse of Vermeer inside, painting light.

Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

Author : Laura J. Snyder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246523
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing written by Laura J. Snyder and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world. On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek—a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher—gazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered a never-before imagined world of microscopic life. At the same time, in a nearby attic, the painter Johannes Vermeer was using another optical device, a camera obscura, to experiment with light and create the most luminous pictures ever beheld. “See for yourself!” was the clarion call of the 1600s. Scientists peered at nature through microscopes and telescopes, making the discoveries in astronomy, physics, chemistry, and anatomy that ignited the Scientific Revolution. Artists investigated nature with lenses, mirrors, and camera obscuras, creating extraordinarily detailed paintings of flowers and insects, and scenes filled with realistic effects of light, shadow, and color. By extending the reach of sight the new optical instruments prompted the realization that there is more than meets the eye. But they also raised questions about how we see and what it means to see. In answering these questions, scientists and artists in Delft changed how we perceive the world. In Eye of the Beholder, Laura J. Snyder transports us to the streets, inns, and guildhalls of seventeenth-century Holland, where artists and scientists gathered, and to their studios and laboratories, where they mixed paints and prepared canvases, ground and polished lenses, examined and dissected insects and other animals, and invented the modern notion of seeing. With charm and narrative flair Snyder brings Vermeer and Van Leeuwenhoek—and the men and women around them—vividly to life. The story of these two geniuses and the transformation they engendered shows us why we see the world—and our place within it—as we do today. Eye of the Beholder was named "A Best Art Book of the Year" by Christie's and "A Best Read of the Year" by New Scientist in 2015.

Chasing Vermeer (Scholastic Gold)

Author : Blue Balliett
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545541018
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Chasing Vermeer (Scholastic Gold) written by Blue Balliett and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chasing Vermeer joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!When a book of unexplainable occurences brings Petra and Calder together, strange things start to happen: Seemingly unrelated events connect; an eccentric old woman seeks their company; an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal, where no one is spared from suspicion. As Petra and Calder are drawn clue by clue into a mysterious labyrinth, they must draw on their powers of intuition, their problem solving skills, and their knowledge of Vermeer. Can they decipher a crime that has stumped even the FBI?

Vermeer's Camera

Author : Philip Steadman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192803023
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Vermeer's Camera written by Philip Steadman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art historians have long speculated on how Vermeer achieved the uncanny mixture of detached precision, compositional repose, and perspective accuracy that have drawn many to describe his work as "photographic." Indeed, many wonder if Vermeer employed a camera obscura, a primitive form of camera, to enhance his realistic effects? In Vermeer's Camera, Philip Steadman traces the development of the camera obscura--first described by Leonaro da Vinci--weighs the arguments that scholars have made for and against Vermeer's use of the camera, and offers a fascinating examination of the paintings themselves and what they alone can tell us of Vermeer's technique. Vermeer left no record of his method and indeed we know almost nothing of the man nor of how he worked. But by a close and illuminating study of the paintings Steadman concludes that Vermeer did use the camera obscura and shows how the inherent defects in this primitive device enabled Vermeer to achieve some remarkable effects--the slight blurring of image, the absence of sharp lines, the peculiar illusion not of closeness but of distance in the domestic scenes. Steadman argues that the use of the camera also explains some previously unexplainable qualities of Vermeer's art, such as the absence of conventional drawing, the pattern of underpainting in areas of pure tone, the pervasive feeling of reticence that suffuses his canvases, and the almost magical sense that Vermeer is painting not objects but light itself. Drawing on a wealth of Vermeer research and displaying an extraordinary sensitivity to the subtleties of the work itself, Philip Steadman offers in Vermeer's Camera a fresh perspective on some of the most enchanting paintings ever created.

Vermeer

Author : Johannes Vermeer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Vermeer written by Johannes Vermeer and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Man Who Made Vermeers

Author : Jonathan Lopez
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547247842
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Made Vermeers written by Jonathan Lopez and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: A lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge Vermeers, one of which he sold to Hermann Goering in mockery of the Nazis. And it's a story that's been believed ever since. Too bad it isn't true. Jonathan Lopez has drawn on never-before-seen documents from dozens of archives to write a revelatory new biography of the world's most famous forger. Neither unappreciated artist nor antifascist hero, Van Meegeren emerges as an ingenious, dyed-in-the-wool crook--a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush. Lopez explores a network of illicit commerce that operated across Europe: Not only was Van Meegeren a key player in that high-stakes game in the 1920s and '30s, landing fakes with famous collectors such as Andrew Mellon, but he and his associates later cashed in on the Nazi occupation. The Man Who Made Vermeers is a long-overdue unvarnishing of Van Meegeren's legend and a deliciously detailed story of deceit in the art world.