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Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition

And then you start looking, and then the whole profileof the town presents itself to us as...

And then you start looking, and then the whole profile
of the town presents itself to us as a, well, pretty rich city

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And then you start looking,
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and then the whole profile of the town presents itself to us
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as a, well, pretty rich city.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
33
Timestamp in Movie
00:13:39
Uploaded
Mar 10, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Seventh Art Productions

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Movie Summary

The Rijksmuseum and Mauritshuis host an exhibition bringing together Vermeer masterpieces. The museum director and curators give a private tour, sharing new research into Vermeer's artistic process, and motivations for his composi...
I mean, you see the church, the new church, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:08
I mean, you see the church, the new church,
We see the herring fleet, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:08
We see the herring fleet,
The gates, I mean, those will be the gates that will open to us - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:09
The gates, I mean, those will be the gates that will open to...
So, there are single steps in the way we will proceed in a minute, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:09
So, there are single steps in the way we will proceed in a m...
And, right, that moment of waiting is crucial, I think, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:13
And, right, that moment of waiting is crucial, I think,
RACHEL: He takes a port - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:06
RACHEL: He takes a port
Delft would've been receiving goods and ships and people - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:11
Delft would've been receiving goods and ships and peopl...
Vermeer chooses to paint it at some unearthly hour of the morning - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:10
Vermeer chooses to paint it at some unearthly hour of the mo...
And you can all but hear just the nothing - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:08
And you can all but hear just the nothing
And yet in this very, very quiet world that he captures... - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:05
And yet in this very, very quiet world that he captures...
..where nothing really moves except one thing, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:11
..where nothing really moves except one thing,
And there's this dark cloud passing, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:10
And there's this dark cloud passing,
And yet, beyond it, as it passes, you see the glint of light - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:10
And yet, beyond it, as it passes, you see the glint of light
Vermeer draws your eye gently down there, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:07
Vermeer draws your eye gently down there,
You know you will step into that city as you look. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:05
You know you will step into that city as you look.
You are drawn very quietly into the world - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:10
You are drawn very quietly into the world
PIETER: What he's doing in the View Of Delft, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:12
PIETER: What he's doing in the View Of Delft,
It's early in the tradition, or the new tradition, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:13
It's early in the tradition, or the new tradition,
He really guides our eye into his composition. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:06
He really guides our eye into his composition.
So, there he's very much aware of who the beholder is. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:06
So, there he's very much aware of who the beholder is.