Jan Vermeer, The Complete Works

This film looks at Vermeer's life and works, his early influences, his compositional and painterly methods, his major themes, and his development over the two decade period he painted in Delft.

[cavlizzy]

I have seen about half of his paintings.... and they are exquisite! Drawing your eye in and holding your attention. I have visited the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague at least 4 times just to view his works there!

[johnobriensarthistorychannel]

Apologies for the confusion with the titles at 30:14 and 30:18.

[stuartgraca]

I find it impossible to believe that Vermeer did not do extensive drawings, his precision of form is not what you can achieve by directly designing the image on the canvas. Yet I understand there are no sketches or drawings and a lack of early student works. I have made many copues if his paintings and appreciate how carefully he calculated the composition and the subtlety of the details in telling the story.

[spactick]

Imagine living in that time with no TV, no radio, no automobiles, no airplanes, no telephones, no refrigeration, no running water etc; YUCK!
NO THANKS, great that good ol Jan left us some incredible paintings but I'll take this period over that any day of the week

[jackkomisar]

The astronomer and the geographer may be portraits of Leeuwenhoek, but I doubt it. Portraits of Leeuwenhoek, whom we would now call a microbiologist, exist, and they don't look like the man in these pictures. Among other things, Leeuwenhoek had curly hair and a small mustache.

[videocatalao]

Thank you for this. Isn't there a painting depicting a woman with a flute ? a painting resembling the one with the woman with red hat ?