Vermeer / Pieter Roelofs, Gregor J.M. Weber.
Publication details: Amsterdam ; London : Rijksmuseum ; Thames & Hudson, 2023.Description: 317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cmISBN:- 9780500026724
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 10 February - 4 June 2023.
Includes bibliographical references (pp.296-315) and index.
The oeuvre of Johannes Vermeer
Note from the editors / Pieter Roelofs, Gregor J.M. Weber
Foreword / Taco Dibbits
Lenders and acknowledgments
Johannes Vermeer (Delft 1632-1675): Modestly Masterful / Pieter Roelofs
Close to Vermeer: A Look Inside the Family Home of the Delft Painter / Pieter Roelofs
Vermeer's Pictorial World / Gregor J.M. Weber
Early Ambitions: Vermeer's Journey from Bible to Brothel / Christian Tico Seifert
Venturing into Town / Pieter Roelofs
In Search of the Perfect Illusion of Space / Gregor J.M. Weber
Windows Between Outer and Inner Worlds / Gregor J.M. Weber
Fashionable Intruders / Ariane van Suchtelen
At a Distance / Gregor J.M. Weber
Up Close / Gregor J.M. Weber
Vermeer's Tronies: An Outward Gaze of Connection / Pieter Roelofs
Musical Appeal / Bart Cornelis
Letters: The World Outside Inside / Marjorie E. Wieseman
The Entire World Inside / Friederike Schütt
Paths to Inner Values / Gregor J.M. Weber
Ambitions of Eternal Renown: The Art of Painting / Sabine Pénot
Endmatter
Johannes Vermeer: List of Works, with Provenance and Literature / Bente Frissen
The Estate Inventory of Catharina Bolnes
Bibliography
Index
In preparation for the Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, an international team of Vermeer experts, under the direction of Pieter Roelofs and Gregor J.M. Weber, conducted extensive research into the life and art practice of the Delft painter. This has resulted in new insights about his social position, his household, his faith, his technique and the influence of his environment on his art. By connecting the latest knowledge about his personal life to his work, we now come closer to Vermeer than ever before. This book, designed by Irma Boom, immerses the reader in the immensely varied pictorial world of the seventeenth-century Dutch master. All 37 of the works attributed to him are included here, and the extraordinary close-up details of these paintings afford us new opportunities to gaze in wonder at Vermeer’s artistry.