This is a show about looking. The first thing you see is the sweeping sky of Vermeer’s View of Delft, glowing as if backlit, and then off to the side, his painting of timeworn Delft houses ...

“Vermeer’s Delft” is also on view until June 4 at Museum Prinsenhof Delft. An Amateur Metal Detectorist in the U.K. Has Struck History-Lover’s Gold: A 16th-Century Pendant With Links to Ki ...

(Only about 35 of those 17th-century works are thought to exist today.) Image In “View of Delft” (1660-61) Vermeer depicted his hometown, with military, religious and commercial buildings ...

Take a walk through the old town to the Vermeer Centre to get a feel of what Delft was like at the time of the famous Baroque artist. Discover Delft by following the trail dedicated to the most ...

But the sounds Vermeer’s pictures radiate are muted ... painted that same year, and then his View of Delft (c1660), there is no debris or dust, no building work, scaffolding or cranes, and no sense of ...

Vermeer really was that special ... You can walk out to the spot where he painted his View of Delft (“the world’s most beautiful painting” according to Marcel Proust).

like the character in Proust who expires in front of Vermeer’s ‘View of Delft,’” writes The Guardian. “Proust was once so excited to see a Vermeer show that he collapsed. So take it easy ...

Vermeer is such a phenomenon that ... (1655), RijksmuseumCourtesy of Museum Prisenhof Delft Among other paintings is Hendrick van Vliet’s view of the interior of the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church ...

The exhibition begins with context setting in the form of Vermeer’s only landscapes. First, his magisterial View of Delft (1660-61) reminding us of where he is from, and just how masterful a ...

Kenneth Clark spoke for the other aspect of Vermeer’s reception history when he praised View of Delft as ‘the nearest which painting has ever come to a coloured photograph’. Can it be a coincidence ...