The famous Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam unveiled on December 2 its intention to organize in 2023 the largest exhibition ever devoted to the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, which will notably show his iconic
Girl with a Pearl Earring
.
The unprecedented exhibition, scheduled in two years, will bring together under one roof works from museums around the world to shed light on the life and career of the brilliant Dutch master of the 17th century.
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An exhibition organized in The Hague in 1996, which brought together some 22 works by the painter, is to date the most ambitious devoted to Vermeer. But the exhibition - from February 10 to June 4, 2023 - promises "
to show more works
" than the demonstration organized in 1996 "
welcomed the director of the Rijksmuseum Taco Dibbits,
while specifying that
,
"
we will not have them. not all
”.
Some 35 works have been attributed to Vermeer, renowned for his mastery of the use of light, sublimated in particular on the painting by
La Laitière
, one of the four Vermeers belonging to the Rijksmuseum. "
It amazed me, that in almost a century of organizing exhibitions at the Rijksmuseum (...) we never had a monographic exhibition on him,
" added Taco Dibbits.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
, the admired masterpiece, which inspired a 2003 blockbuster novel and Hollywood film starring Scarlett Johansson, will be on loan from another Dutch museum, Mauritshuis, which will collaborate with the Rijksmuseum at the organization of the exhibition.
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The Girl with the Pearl
more "
human
" according to recent research
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