Johannes Vermeer | The Sphinx of Delft

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@MichaelDomer 2 ай бұрын

My all time favorite painter, and you made a beautifully produced 3 hour video.... I bow for you! 👍👍👍

@professorjulimarlopes43 2 ай бұрын

I have never seen a video or even a book about Veermer so detailed as this. Highly recommended ! Thank you very much for posting. Greetings from Brazil !

@3_3645 45 минут бұрын

See if you can find the artist who copied the vemeer woman playing the piano. He discovered that vemeer probably did use the camera obscura as he discovered a slight curve on something that should have been straight.

@algie-t2w 2 ай бұрын

A beautiful programme. Thank you.

@guldenaydin9918 2 ай бұрын

An Amazing masterpiece… Thank you very much..

@pchabanowich 2 ай бұрын

No words - one is silenced by this suspended biographical jewel.

@Art_Decoded 2 ай бұрын

Exellent biography! ❤

@sonjasleeper1511 2 ай бұрын

I like the biographical. We have to remember that artists had to make their own paints.

@krischnakrischna 2 ай бұрын

beautiful documentary...thank you...

@maksimkempe3425 2 ай бұрын

1:18:00 One important note about this painting that is not mentioned here is that the balance point lies exactly in the geometric center of the picture.

@merryhunt9153 Ай бұрын

Vermeer had eleven children. The young females were almost certainly modeled by his own daughters and are painted with tenderness and affection. Too bad art critics need to drag in sexual innuendo and criticism ("vanitas") over the simplest things. The part about the foot warmer cracks me up! The girl with the pearl necklace has a "blank look", and that's bad. Guys, I suggest you try fastening valuable necklaces with tiny clasps that you can't see and see if you, too, don't assume a blank look as your brain focuses on the tiny movements of your fingers. 2. Then the music teacher's lips are slightly apart, so he's singing a love song. Well, he's a teacher, so maybe he's teaching her something about playing that keyboard. 3. You smirk that the pearls in "Woman in a Blue Dress reading a Letter" suggest a lover, but don't you think the family would demand to know where such a valuable item came from? Meanwhile, you totally miss her expression of quiet joy as she reads. And so it goes.

@alpenhuhn1 2 ай бұрын

I feel honored!

@byronbuchanan3066 2 ай бұрын

Love it.

@Alex-jb5tb Ай бұрын

Great video, great artist.

@roaringspark7192 10 күн бұрын

At 2:05:26 I believe the diagram might be Sir Isaac Newton’s color wheel from 1666. It would make sense for Vermeer to know about it as a painter and it would fit the theme since Newton was also an astronomer.

@michellemurphy658 Ай бұрын

Great documentary

@BeverlyLedbetter-cb1971 Ай бұрын

One of my favorite painters. My others are Van Eyck, Hans Holbien the younger, Van Dyke and Rembrandt!🫡

@DiamondCutter423 2 ай бұрын

@ 2:07:25 it looks like there might be an Astrological birth-chart of some kind with various aspects and angles, hanging above the globe.

@josephpetrino1741 2 ай бұрын

Deep dive into a great painter.

@teoghia5818 2 ай бұрын

Please enable all languages as before🙏✳️

@sharioverend1618 2 ай бұрын

I read the earring was a gold one.

@jamesdodge9983 3 күн бұрын

I don’t want to spoil anyone’s enjoyment of this, because it is a very informative video, but I have to ask: is all of this AI? Your content output has absolutely skyrocketed in the past year, with hours-long videos being posted every few month, previously being limited to half hour or less videos in the past. The new narrator is most probably AI, and several of the “museum” painting display sequences are clearly AI, but is the text generative AI as well? If so, it’s great that AI is being used for arts education, but it would probably be best to note this in the description or somewhere in the video. Also, is this channel just an attempt at copying the other Learn from Masters channel, that has more subscribers? Or are they sister channels with the same name for some reason?

@Elizalynn-sunshine Ай бұрын

Love his work!! I choose the modest dress and head covering ones and block out the sexual connotations😂. If his wife was like the movie..she probably helped his debt problem

@daigreatcoat44 Ай бұрын

This is an excellent documentary - almost makes ownership of books on Vermeer unnecessary. I wonder, though, whether young women in those days always wrote letters about love - surely they might have had other concerns. Also, the painting of the soldier and the young woman smiling could be of a brother and sister, surely? One other question: even if certain motifs were often used symbolically, it must be possible that this wasn't always so, and that Vermeer could have painted them for the sheer pleasure of representing them. And is music ALWAYS symbolic of love? Didn't people play for the fun of it?

@genghisgalahad8465 2 ай бұрын

You don't have a narrator? Just an AI one? Edit: it either just improved drastically OR I reacted WAY too hastily and shut off my listening! Coulda sworn was more robotic...but thank goodness!

@djpokeeffe8019 2 ай бұрын

He does pretty well don’t you think?.

@genghisgalahad8465 2 ай бұрын

@@djpokeeffe8019 nah, it's cheap, generic, lazy.

@djpokeeffe8019 2 ай бұрын

@@genghisgalahad8465 Well thank you for sharing your opinion. I think the content is good and not spoiled by what is to me, living in England, a credible voice and accent.

@genghisgalahad8465 2 ай бұрын

@@djpokeeffe8019 AI is AI-noying. I prefer earnest live channels with their personal perspectives. Especially when it's a bot imitating with its knock-off version of what it thinks a non-specific English accent is. I enjoy this other one esoteric channel that's got this professorial style AI, but this one is a tad too generic and, for my taste, a tad too artificial?

@djpokeeffe8019 2 ай бұрын

@ he sounds like some of my friends! 🫢

@Riderules73 2 ай бұрын

AI voice speaking I‘m sure.

@Phyllida-r7n 2 ай бұрын

It’s not bad, though. As some!

@bowlyyougottobelieve Ай бұрын

AI written as well

@catherinebreitfeller669 Ай бұрын

AI is here & not going away - accept it.

@bowlyyougottobelieve Ай бұрын

@@catherinebreitfeller669 ok bot

@Moo-cs3xn Ай бұрын

@@catherinebreitfeller669 it'll go away when the grid collapses

@missmurry 4 күн бұрын

Delicious...

@jaydepalma1071 Ай бұрын

No one ever mentiones the odd looking eye on The Milkmaid. It looks like is about to pop out.

@alexzaha Ай бұрын

Couldn't make it past "his father, rayzhneer yahnzh"😂😂😂 jeez, it's like Rainier Yanson.

@jamesanonymous2343 2 ай бұрын

ALL DESERVED PRAISE FOR V/MEER.....BUT THIS VIDEO HAS TOO MANY ""NOTES""

@Phyllida-r7n 2 ай бұрын

No need to shout at us. Why do it? We wouldn’t, couldn’t, be listening if we were deaf……

@tr33m00nk Ай бұрын

@@Phyllida-r7n Using "all caps" for short passages used to be for emphasis. Now it seem to have been taken too far -- for shouting? but why no exclamation points??

@GDLP9603 Ай бұрын

These AI voiceovers are increasingly convincing

@Moo-cs3xn Ай бұрын

and annoying

@irenes3470 2 ай бұрын

More ads than content

@j.louisv.123 2 ай бұрын

No person called Jesus Lord until after his death. Painting "Saint Praxedis" is not a Vermeer. There is no intimacy of space of which Vermeer excelled at and much preferred. As well as the difference in brush stroke of direction, brush placement and light within light at key points of secondary and thirdly light play on play light. Light blending technique of flesh; especially the face is very very un'Vermeer. Vermeers amazing facial tone and light'hughes from above and below are nowhere to be found on this piece. Vermeer was a master of "spatial - reasoning. No, THIS IS NOT A VERMEER.

@tr33m00nk Ай бұрын

I (a practicing artist) agree with all your points. But this is an early work of his while he was still copying other artists' techniques which might explain the "un-VerMeer" techniques in this piece. And this "documentary" is short on documented proof and long on "expert opinions" that often gloss over what seem to be important characteristic details.

@roaringspark7192 10 күн бұрын

I believe there are a few more paintings shown that also aren’t by Vermeer. I suspect study of a young woman, Girl With a Red Hat, and Girl With a Flute.

@jppalm3944 2 ай бұрын

Same room, same layout, same window position,

@dorcasbass5585 2 ай бұрын

All copied through a camera obscura too!

@tr33m00nk Ай бұрын

How/why do annalists and/or commentators of art that is labeled 'realistic' insist that a camera obscura was used? Most accomplished 'fine' artists and architects understand 1, 2 & 3 point perspective and can construct a grid on the ground layer of a painting/drawing that helps them draw the image they want "in perspective" if that's what they need without an expensive 'camera obscura'. The camera obscura and camera lucida were new scientific devices in the 1500s and 1600s and not everyone could afford them or needed them.