Great Paintings timeline
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Woman with a Water Jug
Woman with a Water Jug, also known as Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, is a painting finished between 1660-1662 by the Dutch painter Johannes... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Girl with a Pearl Earring
The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Het Meisje met de Parel) is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's masterworks and as the name... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Girl with a Red Hat
Aside from the expectant expression on the young woman's face, much of the vivacity of this extraordinary painting stems from the manner which it... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Portrait of a Young Woman
In the 1696 sale catalogue of paintings owned by Jacob Dissius, the son-in-law of Vermeer's patron Pieter van Ruijven, "a tronie in antique dress,... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints The Concert
The similarities between The Concert and The Music Lesson are such that they have often been dated at the same time. Both the conception of the... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Mistress and Maid
The servant's interrogative gaze (detail left) is vivid, while the expression, the crucial expression, of the mistress is more obscure, partly... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints The Love Letter
The subject of this painting is love. This is evident in the presence of musical references (the instrument held by the woman and the musical score... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints The Astronomer
The most intriguing link is that which lies latent in two paintings by Vermeer. In 1667 and 1668, a man in his late thirties posed for the painter... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints The Geographer
In The Astronomer and The Geographer Vermeer dealt, according to his habit, with subjects which were the common property of his school. In... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints The Lacemaker
The Lacemaker is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), completed between 1669–1670 and held in the Louvre, Paris. The work... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints A Lady Writing a Letter
A Lady Writing a Letter (also known as A Lady Writing; Dutch: Schrijvend meisje) is an oil painting attributed to 17th century Dutch painter... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid
In the corner of a room illuminated by a tall window in the left wall a woman in a pale green dress with white cap and sleeves and pearl earrings... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints The Allegory of the Faith
An unusually large canvas for Vermeer, this is one of the two known paintings of his that have explicitly allegorical content. Vermeer had... Read more
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