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Yes, to look up some old friends

Yes, to look up some old friends

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Yes, to look up some old friends.
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6 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:48:43
Uploaded
Mar 12, 2025
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documentary
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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 ...
Real old friends and old friends in 2D. - Close to Vermeer 00:08
Real old friends and old friends in 2D.
So far we've got 24 Vermeers for this exhibition, which is unprecedented. - Close to Vermeer 00:08
So far we've got 24 Vermeers for this exhibition, which...
Including the German ones: Two from Berlin, two from Dresden, one from Frankfurt. - Close to Vermeer 00:06
Including the German ones: Two from Berlin, two from Dresden...
This coming year we've got the theme for the Lower Saxony state finals. - Close to Vermeer 00:07
This coming year we've got the theme for the Lower Saxo...
All sitting students, for their final art exams, have to write about this Vermeer. - Close to Vermeer 00:08
All sitting students, for their final art exams, have to wri...
How many students would that be? - I don't know. - Close to Vermeer 00:06
How many students would that be? - I don't know.
About 500 sitting students are doing their final exams in the subject of Art? - Close to Vermeer 00:06
About 500 sitting students are doing their final exams in th...
You could bus them to the exhibition in Amsterdam. - Close to Vermeer 00:06
You could bus them to the exhibition in Amsterdam.
We'll have to cast another yearning look at this painting... - Close to Vermeer 00:06
We'll have to cast another yearning look at this painti...
Swallow hard, and jump off the nearest bridge, I guess. - Close to Vermeer 00:06
Swallow hard, and jump off the nearest bridge, I guess.
I don't think you'll drown. - No, the river's water level is too low. - Close to Vermeer 00:07
I don't think you'll drown. - No, the river's...
It's about the story we want to tell, not the number of paintings. - Close to Vermeer 00:07
It's about the story we want to tell, not the number of...
And for the story, the Braunschweig piece is very... - Close to Vermeer 00:07
And for the story, the Braunschweig piece is very...
Yes, really. It will be so... - Gosh, Gregor. - Close to Vermeer 00:05
Yes, really. It will be so... - Gosh, Gregor.
I have reached a certain age and will retire. - Close to Vermeer 00:08
I have reached a certain age and will retire.
Vermeer is the last show I will do at the Rijksmuseum. - Close to Vermeer 00:08
Vermeer is the last show I will do at the Rijksmuseum.
This will be my crowning achievement. - Close to Vermeer 00:06
This will be my crowning achievement.
I think most art historians have some reason why they do this work. - Close to Vermeer 00:08
I think most art historians have some reason why they do thi...
They can be pure scientists and draw up inventories... - Close to Vermeer 00:07
They can be pure scientists and draw up inventories...
Or measure a piece and find that it's exactly 83 by 67 centimeters. - Close to Vermeer 00:09
Or measure a piece and find that it's exactly 83 by 67 ...