A High Note by the Dutch Master of Harmony: Vermeer's 'Young Woman Standing at a Virginal'

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The National Gallery

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@MrPeteykins 5 ай бұрын

I love a hardcore formalist analysis. Very well done look at form, color, line, and composition.

@Figueiredoartconservation 5 ай бұрын

Amazingly well understood and wonderfully interpreted interpretation of this beautiful painting.

@sherryzimmerman9220 5 ай бұрын

Please more of your excellent commentary……for this is the BEST of social media today……

@jasonbarnes2182 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for the detailed description of this piece of art, it really helps to get a better understanding of what the artist wanted to portray to us.

@nanduthalange7736 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for opening my eyes to the true depths of these paintings - a revelation to me.

@nationalgallery 5 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

@belsnickles 5 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this. Thank you.

@nationalgallery 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@grokeffer6226 5 ай бұрын

Vermeer is one of my favorite artists. 🎨🖼🖌

@purkaitsurajit53 5 ай бұрын

Such beautiful explanation of an extraordinary artwork opens up a whole new world to the eyes of viewer where the beauty of every single detail in Vermeer's work captivates the mind of the delighted observer like nothing else!!😊😊❤❤

@florencegreen3146 5 ай бұрын

Thank you !!!

@janegardener1662 5 ай бұрын

This was very well done. Thank you!

@jannetteberends8730 5 ай бұрын

On the tiles near the floor are images of children’s games. I’ve seen such tiles in the Muiden Castle.

@wilhelm-z4t 5 ай бұрын

Sehr interessant und informativ.

@PhilipMurphy8Extra 5 ай бұрын

It's a wonderful painting

@yuliastiti9922 2 ай бұрын

A perspective on paintings..❤️

@spaceskipster4412 5 ай бұрын

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@kidmohair8151 5 ай бұрын

the comparison to "a modern photographer" may be more than just offhand. Vermeer was noted for his attention to the Cartier Bresson "moment". (who, interestingly posed many of them, and in later life turned to painting)

@Longingtobesomeone 5 ай бұрын

Interesting!

@Thepourdeuxchanson 5 ай бұрын

In the picture of the wall, Cupid holds up a card. And immediately I think of John Lyly's poem - CUPID and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses; Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip, the rose Growing on's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple on his chin; All these did my Campaspe win: And last he set her both his eyes- She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?

@dianapatterson1559 5 ай бұрын

Cupid has no arrow. Has he shot it already? And what has he in his hand?

@Figueiredoartconservation 5 ай бұрын

I think it is Cupid, and he might be holding a bow in his hand. There are many interpretations of Cupid, and in some paintings, he still has an arrow in his hand.

@JJONNYREPP 5 ай бұрын

A High Note by the Dutch Master of Harmony: Vermeer's 'Young Woman Standing at a Virginal' 1129am 26.7.24 maybe it was a given she'd be in love but, in her own mind, she feels nothing.... hence the, seeming, barren state of cupid's bow... old cupid may even be in the act of stringing it with an arrow or could be putting his bow back... she doesn't look like she's been turned down or left in the lurch but her mona lisa smirk suggests she might have done the dirty on someone and left him in the lurch - these things are hardly ever touched upon in chocolate box imagery. are we not sick of the Dutch school? what of the english school...... however tawdry(?)

@cpm9747 5 ай бұрын

I'm a little disappointed there was no discussion about the object in Cupid's raised hand. A playing card? I'm not sure what it is or what to make of it, but it seems a prominent element of his presence in the painting. Anyone know anything about it?

@ginacrusco234 5 ай бұрын

Phenomenal analysis. What of the woman's left hand and arm? The arm is at an unconvincing angle hardly in keeping with Vermeer's meticulous foreshortening, and the hand is unreadable in a way that makes no sense in the context of so much clear detail. Was this a later retouching?