14-03 Dutch Golden Age - Johannes Vermeer (Part 2)

[@CSchaeken]

Such an excellent, informative video, thanks. I was too late to get tickets for the big Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam, learned so much here!

[@jackkomisar458]

This is a very interesting presentation. Yesterday I saw an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., "Vermeer's Secrets", in which they explain how they determined that the "Girl with a Flute" is not by Vermeer. They compared it to their three authentic Vermeers, especially "Girl with a Red Hat". The handling of paint was very precise in the authentic Vermeers, but fairly blotchy in the Girl with a Flute. The Girl with a Flute had highlights, particularly green highlights, in places where Vermeer wouldn't put them, such as in the mouth. And Vermeer used coarsely-ground pigment as an under layer of paint and finely-ground pigment as the top layer, while in the Girl with a Flute, the coarsely-ground pigment was on top. There is a lot more to the exhibit, and I recommend it. The exhibit runs to January 8, 2023.

[@LaurenceShafe]

Thank you for that detailed feedback. There is more information about the exhibition on the NGA website at www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2022/vermeers-secrets.html and more detail about the findings here www.nga.gov/press/exhibitions/exhibitions-2022/5675.html

[@amberdong7295]

Love your video, very informative !

[@lynnetopping4554]

Just hearing about "The Monument Men". I must watch this film, because also discovered was all the wine which the Nazis had "requisitioned "from France. All told in a fantastic book by Donald Kladsrup - "Wine and War ".

[@adamcampbell-jones7621]

Hi excellent discussion ,u say there is an idea that Vermeer used a camera obscura ,he did its been proved in the Tim Jenison film on the recreation of The music lesson.

[@koninginvictoria]

I hope you will go to the exhibition of 28 Vermeer paintings at The Rijksmuseum.

[@maxlinder5262]

I'm totally amazed by ALL going on & your knowledge .......Last painting doesn't have the ambience as his others do .. just my opinion...

[@johnnyTURTLE.]

Sadly, “The Concert” was stolen from the Isabella Gardner Museum in 1990.

[@AndresGonzalez-ne1dm]

Very good video but amazed to hear such benign intrepretations of Vermeer´s work, it´s like he was so good painter that he could not have sexual or herotic or other interpretations although he spent all his mother´s in law money and went on a bender that cost his life drowning in a canal . That´s the opposite of prudence reflected in his paintings, anyway that is art.

[@artistinlederhosen]

i have always loved the girl with the flute… but, to me, the biggest clue that it is not a vermeer is the very clumsily drawn hand. it really is not up to his standard.