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Close to Vermeer

When you take off the lid,you see this dark room here

When you take off the lid,
you see this dark room here

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When you take off the lid, you see this dark room here.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
49
Timestamp in Movie
00:16:55
Uploaded
Mar 12, 2025
Genres
documentary
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Movie Summary

Much has been written, but little is known about Johannes Vermeer, painter of iconic paintings and crowd pleasers such as The Milkmaid and Girl with a Pearl Earring. His small oeuvre is almost everything he left behind. Dicht bij ...
The lens is here and the image falls on this mirror... - Close to Vermeer 00:05
The lens is here and the image falls on this mirror...
It reflects the image onto this ground-glass screen. - Close to Vermeer 00:06
It reflects the image onto this ground-glass screen.
It's really parchment and should be quite translucent. - Close to Vermeer 00:07
It's really parchment and should be quite translucent.
When I look through this, I can suddenly see that as an image. - Close to Vermeer 00:08
When I look through this, I can suddenly see that as an imag...
What you can see in this way, fascinates me here too. - Close to Vermeer 00:07
What you can see in this way, fascinates me here too.
Vermeer has that too. He knows that if there are several window panes... - Close to Vermeer 00:07
Vermeer has that too. He knows that if there are several win...
The curtain no longer throws one shadow, but in this case... - Close to Vermeer 00:06
The curtain no longer throws one shadow, but in this case...
He didn't paint with the camera obscura, he observed. - Close to Vermeer 00:06
He didn't paint with the camera obscura, he observed.
He did exactly this and wondered: Wow, what's happening here? - Close to Vermeer 00:07
He did exactly this and wondered: Wow, what's happening...
So, do I look like the Girl with a Pearl Earring now? - Close to Vermeer 00:06
So, do I look like the Girl with a Pearl Earring now?
Almost. - I knew it. - Close to Vermeer 00:05
Almost. - I knew it.
I have to admit I'm pretty excited. - Close to Vermeer 00:07
I have to admit I'm pretty excited.
Portrait of an Old Woman as Saint Apollonia. - Close to Vermeer 00:10
Portrait of an Old Woman as Saint Apollonia.
But she was drawn by Vermeer's neighbor. - Close to Vermeer 00:06
But she was drawn by Vermeer's neighbor.
Vermeer lived at Oude Langendijk, next to the Jesuits... - Close to Vermeer 00:06
Vermeer lived at Oude Langendijk, next to the Jesuits...
Yes. And you could draw this using a camera obscura, for instance. - Close to Vermeer 00:08
Yes. And you could draw this using a camera obscura, for ins...
So I wondered if this could have been done by tracing a projection. - Close to Vermeer 00:09
So I wondered if this could have been done by tracing a proj...
But then the parchment must have been so translucent... - Close to Vermeer 00:06
But then the parchment must have been so translucent...
As to be transparent. - In this case I think that's a bit... - Close to Vermeer 00:06
As to be transparent. - In this case I think that's a b...
So will your theory be confirmed? - Close to Vermeer 00:07
So will your theory be confirmed?