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Vermeer mania, the Amsterdam exhibition is already an event

2023-01-23T09:32:36.921Z


28 out of 37 paintings by the master of light and color from all over the world (ANSA) There are only 37 known works by the artist of light, even 28 that will be able to be seen all together in the record exhibition even before the opening. There is a VERMEER MANIA in the air, judging by the boom in bookings, over 100,000, and by the choice of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to extend visiting hours.     Announced as one of the exhibition events in Europe in 2023, 'Vermeer' - from 10 F


There are only 37 known works by the artist of light, even 28 that will be able to be seen all together in the record exhibition even before the opening.

There is a VERMEER MANIA in the air, judging by the boom in bookings, over 100,000, and by the choice of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to extend visiting hours.


    Announced as one of the exhibition events in Europe in 2023, 'Vermeer' - from 10 February to 4 June - is already a case for being the largest ever exhibition of the Delft artist's work.

The 17th century master made us enter Dutch homes, love those domestic scenes and portraits of people, especially women, illuminated with incomparable clarity, with light that becomes 'colour', intimate, magical portraits.

The girl with a turban and a pearl earring, and then the milkmaid, the lacemaker are some of the most famous works together with the bourgeois interiors, in which something is done, as is obvious in Calvinist Holland, such as music lessons, painting, and to the landscapes of his Delft where he was born in 1632 he lived, very Catholic and with 10 children, worked and died in 1675.

For the first time in its history, the Rijksmuseum is organizing an exhibition of the works of Johannes Vermeer, bringing together paintings from all over the world to a record 28. The technical and art-historical research conducted in preparation for the exhibition examines his life of man and artist, his motivations, artistic choices and the pictorial process itself.

The museum, which has also announced the extension of opening hours until 10 pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings for the entire duration, has developed a dedicated digital experience available free of charge for lovers of Vermeer all over the world.

Stephen Fry (English speaking) and Joy Delima (Dutch speaking) guide online visitors to discover the artist's work and life, an exhibition within an exhibition, '

Closer to Johannes Vermeer'.

It uses the most advanced technology available today and for the first time, visitors will be able to magnify the smallest particles of pigment in razor-sharp detail through very high-resolution photographs of some of Vermeer's paintings.


    The works come from all over the world: with an extraordinary gesture, the Frick Collection will lend all three of its masterpieces to the exhibition: Interrupted concert, Soldier with smiling girl, Maid handing a letter to the lady and it will be the first time that all three the paintings have been exhibited together outside New York City since they were acquired more than a century ago.

Other seminal works include Girl with a Pearl Earring (from the Mauritshuis, The Hague), The Geographer (from the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main), Woman Writing a Letter in the Presence of Her Maid (from the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Pearl Weigher or Woman with Scales (The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC), the Wine Glass (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin), Lute Player (Metropolitan Museum, NYC) and the Lacemaker (Louvre,

Paris) and Woman Reading a Letter in Front of the Window, recently restored by the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden.

The Rijksmuseum itself owns four Vermeer masterpieces: ;;the Milkmaid, the Lane, Woman in Blue Reading a Letter and Love Letter.


    In parallel there is the research on his painting, on the occasion of the great exhibition: according to the latest analyzes the belief that Vermeer painted slowly and with great reflection must be reviewed.

The final results may therefore appear introspective and contemplative, but his working method was virtuosic and rigorous.

Gregor JM Weber, Head of Fine Arts at the Rijksmuseum and co-curator of the exhibition, says: "Vermeer's painting technique has always had a kind of mystery. How did he create this miracle of light and colour? Thanks to the discovery of an early paint sketch black, we are now able to get a much more complete idea of ​​his working method". 


Source: ansa

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