This article is taken from the
Figaro Hors-série “Vermeer, painting silence”
.
In this special issue
, discover the Dutch Golden Age, the life and work of the Delft prodigy, on the occasion of the largest retrospective ever organized on Vermeer, at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
"Vermeer, painting silence" Le Figaro Special Edition
Doctor of philosophy and essayist, Bérénice Levet is the author, among other things, of the Imaginary Museum of Hannah Arendt. In 2022, she published
Ecology or the drunkenness of the clean slate and Le Courage de la dissidence with the Éditions de l'Observatoire.
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It would not have occurred to any other people,
wrote Hegel about the Dutch people,
to create works of art by giving them as content objects apparently as banal and ordinary as those which appear on their paintings. .
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What was this people who, if they did not invent genre painting, gave this aesthetic dedicated to the exploration and representation of the prose of life its highest and noblest expression?
What were its habits and customs...
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