Jan Vermeer

A girl with a wine glass.

The milkmaid

Jan Vermeer (b. Delft 1632 - d. Delft, 1675), Dutch Baroque painter also known as Johannes van der Meer van Delft.

Only 35 of Vermeer's canvases have survived. In his works, he recorded the effects of light with a subtlety, delicacy, and purity of color that probably never have been surpassed. [1] His most frequent subjects were genre, landscape and intimate interiors often with the solitary figure of a woman.

A painter who excelled in portraying comfortable interior scenes that are composed with mathematical clarity and suffused with cool, silvery light. He is considered one of the greatest Dutch painters.

## See also[edit]

The concert.

* Painting Schools
* Painting Masterpieces PART II
* Gallery of Flemish and Dutch painting
* Flemish School of Painting
* The world’s most famous paintings

## External links[edit]

* Paintings Web Gallery of Art.
* Vermeer Infoplease.
* Biography Olga's Gallery.

## References[edit]

The Lacemaker

1. ↑ Jan Vermeer biography

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