Art Travel Europe Vermeer And Delft

Author : Museyon,
Publisher : Museyon
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781938450167

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Art + Travel Europe Vermeer and Delft by Museyon, Pdf

Vermeer, who painted exquisite light-infused scenes of middle-class life in Delft, was a slow craftsman and produced few works in his lifetime. Many of his paintings were scooped up by wealthy Delft patron Pieter van Ruijven, which may be why his fame didn't spread to other Dutch art centers. In fact, Vermeer was relatively unknown until 1866, when French critic Théophile Thoré saw his "View of Delft" in The Hague. This book features detailed walking tours of Delft, the Hague and Amsterdam where the artist lived, loved and labored. Readers will discover the sights and stories behind such an iconic work like "Girl with a Pearl Earring."

Author : Museyon Guides
Publisher : Museyon Inc
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780982232057

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Art + Travel Europe by Museyon Guides Pdf

Van Gogh, Munch, Vermeer, Caravaggio, and Goya are five iconic European artists whose inspirational works have been obsessed over by art lovers and travelers for years. To see masterpieces such as Starry Night and The Scream up close is awe-inspiring, but this guide offers true devotees even more. The book provides detailed walking tours of Van Gogh's Arles, France; Munch's Oslo, Norway; Vermeer's Delft, Netherlands; Caravaggio's Rome, Italy; and Goya's Madrid, Spain; as well as meticulously researched articles on the artists' lives. It is packed with useful sidebars, suggested itineraries, museum locations, and an extended index of artwork, and features color photographs of more than 150 paintings.

Author : Walter A. Liedtke,Michiel Plomp,Axel Rüger,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),National Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art, Dutch
ISBN : 9780870999734

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Vermeer and the Delft School by Walter A. Liedtke,Michiel Plomp,Axel Rüger,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),National Gallery (Great Britain) Pdf

Walter Liedtke, curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has assembled a splendid catalog of Vermeer and his artistic milieu. Seven lengthy, well-illustrated chapters (Liedtke wrote five, Dutch art historians Michiel Plomp and Marten Jan Bok wrote the others) describe life in the city of Delft; the painters Carel Fabritius, Leonart Bramer, and others who preceded Vermeer; the careers of Vermeer and De Hooch; the making of drawings and prints in 17th-century Delft; and the collecting of art in the same period. The catalog follows: each painting, print, and drawing accompanied by a lengthy catalog essay. Oversize: 12.25x9.75". c. Book News Inc.

Author : Walter A. Liedtke
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39076002258080

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A View of Delft by Walter A. Liedtke Pdf

The six essays in this book focus upon painting in Delft during the period 1650-1675. Four artists, Carel Fabritius, Gerard Houckgeest, Pieter de Hooch and Johannes Vermeer, are discussed at length. However, these chapters are neither monographic nor int

Author : Museyon Guides
Publisher : Museyon Incorporated
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 1938450132

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Art + Travel Europe by Museyon Guides Pdf

Van Gogh, Munch, Vermeer, Caravaggio, and Goya are five iconic European artists whose inspirational works have been obsessed over by art lovers and travelers for years. To see masterpieces such as "Starry Night" and "The Scream" up close is awe-inspiring, but this guide offers true devotees even more. The book provides detailed walking tours of Van GoghOCOs Arles, France; MunchOCOs Oslo, Norway; VermeerOCOs Delft, Netherlands; CaravaggioOCOs Rome, Italy; and GoyaOCOs Madrid, Spain; as well as meticulously researched articles on the artistsOCO lives. It is packed with useful sidebars, suggested itineraries, museum locations, and an extended index of artwork, and features color photographs of more than 150 paintings."

Author : Gabrielle Townsend
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039111248

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Proust's Imaginary Museum by Gabrielle Townsend Pdf

This study of Marcel Proust's creative imagination examines an aspect of the novel that has hitherto been largely overlooked: the author's dependence on secondary visual sources. Gabrielle Townsend argues that reproductions play a key role in the work's complex, multi-layered structure.

Author : Ben Garcia,Johannes Vermeer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Delft (Netherlands)
ISBN : 0976670615

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A Journey Into Vermeer's Delft by Ben Garcia,Johannes Vermeer Pdf

Reveals how the life and the art of the great Dutch master Johannes Vermeer were shaped by the picturesque city of Delft, this guide brings the past of the city to life through its interpretations of Vermeer's paintings. Each chapter spotlights a different facet of 17th-century Delft -- architecture, music, politics, science, the art market, and the role of women -- while examining its impact on the enigmatic Vermeer. Maps and photographs allow readers to explore the city as it stands today and to discover the painter's remarkable visual and imaginative legacy.

Author : Walter A. Liedtke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Delft (Netherlands)
ISBN : UCSD:31822036299832

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Vermeer by Walter A. Liedtke Pdf

Johannes Vermeer (16321675) has been one of the most widely admired European painters since his so-called rediscovery in the second half of the nineteenth century. Until quite recently, the Romantic roots of writing on the Sphinx of Delft have encouraged the image of him as an isolated genius; the artists private life and religion, his supposed use of a camera obscura, and the fact that his teacher has not been identified have all contributed to an air of mystery. As this new monograph demonstrates, Vermeers life is actually well documented and his work may be more appropriately understood by placing the painter in the context of the Delft school as a whole and of Delft society. The fact that one local patron acquired about twenty pictures by the artist (only thirty-six are known today) must have been significant for Vermeers subtleties of meaning and refinements of technique and style. In the end, however, the most historical approach to Vermeer still leaves us with a master whose rare sensibility and extraordinary powers of observation may be described but not explained.

Author : Albert Blankert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSC:32106007233205

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Vermeer of Delft by Albert Blankert Pdf

Author : Julian Porter
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781459723894

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149 Paintings You Really Should See in Europe — The Netherlands, Belgium, and Sweden by Julian Porter Pdf

This chapter from Julian Porter’s essential companion to all the major European museums and galleries discusses some of the greatest paintings to be found in the museums and galleries of The Netherlands, Belgium, and Sweden. His passion for art began with the seven years he spent as a student tour guide in Europe. In this segment he visits Amsterdam, Stockholm, The Hague, Bruges, Antwerp and Ghent and discusses works by the Dutch masters such as Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Van Eyck, but also Van Gogh and Renoir. In the usually pretentious arena of art connoisseurs, Porter’s voice stands out as fresh and original. He finds the best of the best, which he describes with entertaining irreverence, and spares you hours of sore feet and superfluous information.

Author : Walter A. Liedtke
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Painting, Dutch
ISBN : 9781588393449

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The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer by Walter A. Liedtke Pdf

In this catalogue for the exhibition, Walter Liedtke, Curator of Paintings at the Metropolitan, drawing on the Museum's five Vermeers, scenes by other Dutch masters in the Museum's collection, including Pieter de Hooch, Gabriel Metsu, Nicolaes Maes, and Emanuel de Witte, and several works on paper, places the picture in the context of the artist's brief career and relates it to contemporary developments in Dutch art. In addition to an extended discussion of the painting's provenance, he provides a detailed study of the composition, the several revisions made during the course of execution, and the subtle relationships between light and shadow, color, contour, and shape. And he proposes a most intriguing argument for an erotic subtext, pointing out that, like maids and kitchen maids in earlier Netherlandish art, the figure in The Milkmaid was meant to attract the male viewer, to rouse in him temptation and restraint, desire and reservation, while the kitchen maid herself, endowed with traits typically reserved for higher-class women and surrounded by references to romance both literal and oblique, is presented as having amorous thoughts of her own.

Author : DK Travel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781465463456

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Europe by DK Travel Pdf

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Europe will lead you straight to the best attractions this diverse continent has to offer, from the majestic peaks of the Alps to the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean. This newly updated guidebook is packed with information on the culture, history, architecture, and art of the continent, in addition to the best of Europe's gardens, beaches, cathedrals, castles, and shopping. DK's insider travel tips and essential local information will help you discover Europe your way, whether you want to explore the luscious green landscape of Ireland, relax on a beach in Greece, or both. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Europe. + Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance. + Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights. + Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums. + Local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area. + Area maps marked with sights. + Detailed city maps include street finder indexes for easy navigation. + Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights. + Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Europe truly shows you what others only tell you.

Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847652546

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Vermeer's Hat by Timothy Brook Pdf

In one painting, a Dutch military officer leans toward a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. In a third, fruit spills from a porcelain bowl onto a Turkish carpet. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur, which European explorers got from Native Americans in exchange for weapons. Beaver pelts, in turn, financed the voyages of sailors seeking new routes to China. There - with silver mined in Peru - Europeans would purchase, by the thousands, the porcelain so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time. Vermeer's haunting images hint at the stories behind these exquisitely rendered moments. As Timothy Brook shows us in Vermeer's Hat, these pictures, which seem so intimate, actually open doors onto a rapidly expanding world.

Author : Jane Jelley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192506900

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Traces of Vermeer by Jane Jelley Pdf

Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; the glimmer of satin, silver, and linen; we see the softness of a hand on a lute string or letter. We recognise the distilled impression of a moment of time; and we feel it to be real. We might hope for some answers from the experts, but they are confounded too. Even with the modern technology available, they do not know why there is an absence of any preliminary drawing; why there are shifts in focus; and why his pictures are unusually blurred. Some wonder if he might possibly have used a camera obscura to capture what he saw before him. The few traces Vermeer has left behind tell us little: there are no letters or diaries; and no reports of him at work. Jane Jelley has taken a new path in this detective story. A painter herself, she has worked with the materials of his time: the cochineal insect and lapis lazuli; the sheep bones, soot, earth and rust. She shows us how painters made their pictures layer by layer; she investigates old secrets; and hears travellers' tales. She explores how Vermeer could have used a lens in the creation of his masterpieces. The clues were there all along. After all this time, now we can unlock the studio door, and catch a glimpse of Vermeer inside, painting light.

Author : Walter A. Liedtke,Michiel Plomp,Axel Rüger,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),National Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Art, Dutch
ISBN : 0870999745

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Vermeer and the Delft School by Walter A. Liedtke,Michiel Plomp,Axel Rüger,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),National Gallery (Great Britain) Pdf

"Seventeenth-century Delft has often been viewed as a quaint town whose artists painted scenes of domestic life. This book revises that image, showing that the small but vibrant Dutch city produced a wide range of artworks, including luxurious tapestries and silver objects, as well as sophisticated paintings for the court at The Hague and for patrician collectors in Delft itself."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved