Over time these react with negatively charged components of oil called fatty acids, which have been severed from the rest of ...

Neil McGregor makes an engaging guide for this tour of the National Gallery's hugely popular exhibition, Vermeer and the Delft School. Jan Vermeer's work was virtually unknown for 200 years after ...

You can see Fabritius’ influence in Vermeer’s work; the crumbling plaster, the light and shadow, the startling compositions, the intimacy of scene and his own view of Delft. Fabritius had his ...

Because Vermeer was a prolific painter and died in his 40s, only a little over 30 of his works remain today, but the museum has three of them: 'Girl with a Pearl Earring,' 'View of Delft,' and ...

In The Astronomer, for instance, they noticed how Vermeer illuminated a dim interior with a brilliant shaft of light falling through a window. In View of Delft, his only known landscape ...

Rembrandt’s “faith in darkness”; Fabritius and his enigmatic self-portrait and “View of Delft” as “the unanswered question of Dutch art”, bridging Rembrandt and Vermeer; the ...

There is one more thing we must look at before we go. It's Johannes Vermeer's tranquil "View of Delft" (1659–1661). Look at it. So peaceful. So pretty. The light-blue sky. The fluffy clouds.

That reverie turns beatific in Vermeer’s View of Delft, where Cumming calls the stepped roofs of the houses “stairways to heaven;” even more mystically, she says that the bucket carried by a maid in a ...

While all but two of the known Vermeers are on view ... Vermeer’s short and somewhat enigmatic life, and likely for some time thereafter, his paintings resided more or less in and around Delft.

Taxonomized by art historians as the “missing link” between Rembrandt (in whose workshop he apprenticed) and Vermeer (who owned ... masterpiece, “A View of Delft, With a Musical Instrument ...

Sounds like a crime scene—and a grim one at that—but actually it’s a few lines from the inventory of Johannes Vermeer’s family home in Delft, made shortly after ... Lucian Freud had a clear view of ...