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A stately Delft church interior, or Johannes Vermeer’s view of Delft. You may wonder how these places appear today. What has changed in the course of 300 years? Where are his little jewels, made of color and light, now? Observing his paintings, you can discover that Vermeer did not make use of aerial perspective in his interiors (although he was aware that warm colors seem to advance toward the viewer). He painted domestic interior scenes. Almost all his paintings are apparently set in two smallish rooms (showing the same furniture and decorations), and they portray mostly women.

Vermeer’s Guitar Player? http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/kenwood/ That oil on canvas (53 x 46.3 cm), it’s in London, in the refurbished Dining-Room of the Kenwood House. Diana and her Companions? You’ll have to go at 8, Korte Vijverberg, The Hague in the Netherlands https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/ at the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, to admire that oil on canvas (98.5 x 105 cm). In The Hague, at the same museum, also there is Girl with a Pearl Earring, oil on canvas (46.5 x 40 cm). In Dresden http://www.skd.museum/en/homepage/index.html at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Picture Gallery), waiting for you A Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window, oil on canvas (83 x 64.5 cm). To enjoy this glass of wine, you will not go to a tavern. The Glass of Wine, oil on canvas (65 x 77 cm), is shown http://www.smb.museum/en/home.html at the State Museums Prussian Cultural Heritage, Picture Gallery, Berlin. In this same museum, there are a little oil on canvas (55 x 45 cm), Woman with a Pearl Necklace.

Visiting Amsterdam, do not forget to go to the Rijksmuseum https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/ where there are The Little Street, small and precious oil on canvas (54.3 x 44 cm). Already in Rijksmuseum to learn about the masterpieces of Vermeer, do not forget to let yourself go to the charm of The Milkmaid (oil on canvas, 45.5 x 41 cm). Ultramarine blue it’s the king of pigments. For this ultramarine blue masterpiece of art (oil on canvas, 45.7 x 40.6 cm), Vermeer attracts you to New York, at Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/search-results?ft=vermeer&x=0&y=0 where you can know an Young Woman with a Water Pitcher. The Frick Collection, in New York http://www.frick.org/ it maintains a small casket of beauty (oil on canvas, 90.2 x 78.7 cm): Mistress and Maid. Visiting Paris, at the Louvre Museum http://www.louvre.fr/en do not forget to see one of the little gems of Vermeer, The Lacemaker (il on canvas, attached to panel 24.5 x 21 cm).

To pursue this issue, you can also read:

http://meetingbenches.com/2016/12/johannes-vermeer-16321675-dutch-painter-painting-women-streets-dutch-golden-age/

http://meetingbenches.com/2016/12/small-heritage-full-light-johannes-vermeer-new-forms-capturing-light/