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Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition

Sometimes, they're yellow and dark

Sometimes, they're yellow and dark

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Sometimes, they're yellow and dark.
Duration
5 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:35:29
Uploaded
Mar 10, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Seventh Art Productions

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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...
And when you zoom out, it still makes this realistic sort of bread. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:06
And when you zoom out, it still makes this realistic sort of...
So we see that he's a good observer also of light and dark - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:12
So we see that he's a good observer also of light and d...
So behind, for example, the milkmaid, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:12
So behind, for example, the milkmaid,
While, on the other side, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:08
While, on the other side,
This is a back room where you can see the stains on the walls. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:06
This is a back room where you can see the stains on the wall...
This is a view so intimate - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:19
This is a view so intimate
It's extraordinarily detailed and yet so monumental, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:09
It's extraordinarily detailed and yet so monumental,
The way he plays with the light, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:15
The way he plays with the light,
You know, his extraordinary versatility with paint. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:06
You know, his extraordinary versatility with paint.
To be so versatile and yet never to show you his brushstroke. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:06
To be so versatile and yet never to show you his brushstroke...
TACO: I think the fundamental difference - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:18
TACO: I think the fundamental difference
So even though Vermeer was a Catholic, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:24
So even though Vermeer was a Catholic,
The burghers of the country, those were the people who ruled. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:07
The burghers of the country, those were the people who ruled...
And that was one of the causes - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:10
And that was one of the causes
And Vermeer is the master in depicting everyday scenes. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:06
And Vermeer is the master in depicting everyday scenes.
And there's no such painting as The Milkmaid, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:12
And there's no such painting as The Milkmaid,
She's nearly the kind of... a secular Mary on the canvas. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:07
She's nearly the kind of... a secular Mary on the canva...
And I think that that's really such a difference - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:09
And I think that that's really such a difference
ROBERT LINDSAY: A young woman sits by a window - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:09
ROBERT LINDSAY: A young woman sits by a window
She appears to be tuning the lute after playing, perhaps, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:16
She appears to be tuning the lute after playing, perhaps,