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1 week agoThe Violence in Vermeer
Vermeer's paintings served as safe havens amidst a backdrop of war and starvation, contrasting with modern acts of protest against art.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 months agoVermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' will head to Japan this summer in rare loan
The Mauritshuis will lend Girl with a Pearl Earring to Osaka's Nakanoshima Museum of Art this summer during a short closure to help fund renovations.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
6 months agoBook reveals how Rijksmuseum's once-in-a-lifetime Vermeer exhibition came together
The Rijksmuseum's 2023 Vermeer exhibition drew 650,000 visitors, showed 28 of the artist's 37 paintings, and generated extensive new research by specialists.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
6 months agoIs a Vermeer self-portrait hiding behind his 'sleeping maid' at the Met? The museum has provided another clue
Vermeer overpainted a left-handed figure in A Maid Asleep, likely a self-portrait reflected in a mirror, later replaced to focus attention on the woman.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
7 months agoHidden picture beneath Vermeer's 'Girl with the Red Hat' may be the artist's only existing male portrait, research reveals
Imaging reveals the hidden male portrait beneath Girl with the Red Hat may be a Vermeer underpainting, potentially his sole known male portrait.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
7 months agoVermeer's vandal: the untold story of a vicious attack at London's National Gallery in 1968
Vandal attempted to remove the head from Vermeer's Young Woman Seated at a Virginal in 1968; damage was restored and is now virtually imperceptible.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
7 months agoSeeing double: Vermeer painting and it's mysterious 'twin' go on show in London
Two nearly identical Vermeer paintings of a guitar player—Kenwood's signed, better-preserved work and Philadelphia's unsigned twin—are displayed together, renewing questions of authenticity.
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