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Vermeer: The Complete Works by Arthur K. Wheelock β€” book cover

Vermeer: The Complete Works

by Arthur K. Wheelock, Johannes Vermeer
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Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), one of the great masters of the Dutch Golden Age, is among the world's best-loved artists. The poetry of Vermeer's painting, with its brilliant colors, exquisite textures, and pearly light effects, is as vivid to us today as it must have been to people of the artist's own time. This beautiful book illustrates every known work by Vermeer in full color. Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Curator of Northern Baroque Painting at the National Gallery of Art has written an illuminating essay on the artist and commentaries on the paintings.

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Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), one of the great masters of the Dutch Golden Age, is among the world's best-loved artists. The poetry of Vermeer's painting, with its brilliant colors, exquisite textures, and pearly light effects, is as vivid to us today as it must have been to people of the artist's own time. This beautiful book illustrates every known work by Vermeer in full color. Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Curator of Northern Baroque Painting at the National Gallery of Art has written an illuminating essay on the artist and commentaries on the paintings.

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The style of art created during the golden age of Dutch painting is instantly recognizable for its warm golden light, contrasting dark and light colors, naturally posed figures, and -- undergirding the beauty -- a new relationship with human psychology. Arthur K. Wheelock, curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the home of a sold-out Vermeer exhibition, reproduces here in full-page color spreads all of the artist's 35 attributed paintings. With commentary on each painting and an essay on the artist.

Book Details

Published
September 1, 1997
Publisher
Abrams, Harry N., Inc.
Pages
72
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780810927513

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