• Johannes Vermeer • Dutch (Denmark) • Girl with a Pearl Earring • Oil on canvas, • 17 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (44.5 x 39 cm.) • c. 1665-1667 • Baroque era • The Hague, The Royal Cabinet of Paintings, Mauritshuis
Jan 16, 2016
• Johannes Vermeer
• Dutch (Denmark)• Girl with a Pearl
Earring• Oil on canvas,
• 17 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (44.5 x 39 cm.)
• c. 1665-1667
• Baroque era
• The Hague, The Royal Cabinet of Paintings, Mauritshuis
Notice value changes, notice scale
• Up close look at the face of Girl with Pearl Earring
Johannes Vermeer
• The Milkmaid
• c. 1657-1658
• Oil on canvas
• 45.5 X 41 cm
• Baroque era
Rjiksmuseum, Amsterdam http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_artists/00017083?page=1&lang=en&context_space=&context_id=
Rendering of texture
• The way texture is rendered refers to how an artist depicts the different materials in a painting. These materials are usually kinds of textile, as well as other various materials such metals, stones, furs etc.
• Artists with an eye for rendering texture try to capture the appearance and structure of the material depicted as accurately as possible thereby imitating the real thing as closely as they can.
• Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window
• painting finished in 1657
Detail of curtain
Take in...
• the texture
• the points of light
• the fact that a curtain in the 17th C represents a very intimate setting
http://vermeer0708.wordpress.com/a-girl-reading-a-letter-by-an-open-window/
• Vermeer and Rembrandt set up the light in a specific point in the picture, but not any point, but the important one. Where the eyes have to be driven, where we should focus our attention. A very good example is in “Girl with a pearl earring” painting. We can consider that there are three main points of light: the face itself, the mouth lower lip and the earring. The important points are reflected with light.
• Johannes Vermeer• Girl with a Pearl
Earring• oil on canvas,
• 17 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (44.5 x 39 cm.)
• Baroque era
• The Hague, The Royal Cabinet of Paintings, Mauritshuis
Proportion, shading, detail...
• Up close look at the face of Girl with Pearl Earring
• Johannes Vermeer
• The Art of Painting
• oil on canvas
• 130 cm x 110 cm• This painting is called The
Art of Painting, but it is also known as The Allegory of Painting or Painter in his studio. Many experts in art believe that this work is an allegory of painting, and thus, the different titles.
• Museum of Vienna
Say the color of the word