Tag: Johannes Vermeer
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13 works, 32 years later Boston’s $500M art heist remains mystery, with footnotes
13 paintings (by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Manet) vanished on March 18, 1990. The 25th anniversary of the infamous heist; where two men dressed as police officers gained entry to the museum, tied up the security officers and swiped 13 works worth an estimated $500 million. The museum continues to offer a $5 million reward for…
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13 Paintings, The amorous game, With Footnotes, #3
Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings. Vermeer…
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Johannes Vermeer, The Procuress 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 45 – With Footnotes
The woman in black, the leering coupler, “in a nun’s costume”, could be the eponymous procuress, while the man to her right, “wearing a black beret and a doublet with slashed sleeves”, has been identified as a self portrait of the artist. The man, a soldier, in the red jacket is fondling the young woman’s…
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10 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 51
Matthias Stomer, 1600 – 1652 Capture of Christ, c. 1640 Oil on canvas 208 x 272 cm Private collection. Courtesy Benappi Fine Art The arrest of Jesus is a pivotal event recorded in the canonical gospels. The event ultimately leads, in the Gospel accounts, to Jesus’ crucifixion. Jesus was arrested by the Temple guards of the…
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