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Close to Vermeer

Without being able to showany new insights, would be a shame

without being able to show
any new insights, would be a shame

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without being able to show any new insights, would be a shame.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
39
Timestamp in Movie
00:14:30
Uploaded
Mar 13, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
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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 ...
Vermeer has been called "the Sphinx of Delft" since the 19th century, - Close to Vermeer 00:11
Vermeer has been called "the Sphinx of Delft" sinc...
Looks a little like a 19th-century photograph... - Close to Vermeer 00:05
Looks a little like a 19th-century photograph...
With everything in ochre, Grey, pink. - Close to Vermeer 00:06
With everything in ochre, Grey, pink.
Looking at it closely, you see the eye has been done without any lines. - Close to Vermeer 00:08
Looking at it closely, you see the eye has been done without...
It's purely a shadow of skin color... - Close to Vermeer 00:08
It's purely a shadow of skin color...
Which makes the eye and eyelashes visible... - Close to Vermeer 00:07
Which makes the eye and eyelashes visible...
Without having been painted in detail. - Close to Vermeer 00:05
Without having been painted in detail.
We have no idea what knowledge he had. - Close to Vermeer 00:07
We have no idea what knowledge he had.
He must have had some kind of optical instrument... - Close to Vermeer 00:06
He must have had some kind of optical instrument...
With mirrors and lenses to be able to see this kind of effect. - Close to Vermeer 00:08
With mirrors and lenses to be able to see this kind of effec...
Hold out your hand again. Wow. - Close to Vermeer 00:05
Hold out your hand again. Wow.
It's only 30 to 50 centimeters, but the difference... - Close to Vermeer 00:08
It's only 30 to 50 centimeters, but the difference...
Your hand is all vague, very vague contours. - Close to Vermeer 00:07
Your hand is all vague, very vague contours.
While your face and your necklace are really well-defined. - Close to Vermeer 00:06
While your face and your necklace are really well-defined.
Now you're all blurry so I must try to somehow... - Close to Vermeer 00:08
Now you're all blurry so I must try to somehow...
Get you in focus by changing the distance. - Close to Vermeer 00:06
Get you in focus by changing the distance.
- Watch your step. - I know that step. - Close to Vermeer 00:06
- Watch your step. - I know that step.
A camera obscura is basically a dark box. - Close to Vermeer 00:07
A camera obscura is basically a dark box.
When you take off the lid, you see this dark room here. - Close to Vermeer 00:07
When you take off the lid, you see this dark room here.
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...