Johannes Vermeer


 
 

Johannes Vermeer (October 1632 - buried on December 15, 1675) was a Dutch painter, who lived and worked in Delft. He is also sometimes referred to as Vermeer of Delft or Johannes van der Meer. Alongside Rembrandt, Vermeer is the best known painter of the Dutch Golden Age, and his paintings are admired for their transparent colours, careful composition and brilliant use of light.

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Vermeer produced transparent colours by adding the paint onto the canvas in loosely granular layers, a technique called pointill? (not to be confused with pointillism). Historians speculate that Vermeer possibly used a camera obscura to achieve precise positioning in his compositions, and this view seems to be supported by certain light and perspective effects which would be the result of lenses and not the naked eye; however, the issue is disputed (David Hockney has been a major exponent of this theory).


 

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Introduction
Technique
Themes
Influence of other painters
Works
Forgeries
Vermeer in other works
External links
 
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