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Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition

Vermeer draws your eyegently down there, and he draws you into that drama

Vermeer draws your eye
gently down there, and he draws you into that drama

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Vermeer draws your eye gently down there,
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and he draws you into that drama.
Duration
7 seconds
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39
Timestamp in Movie
00:15:27
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...
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.
That's Vermeer as the cinematographer to the max. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:06
That's Vermeer as the cinematographer to the max.
That kind of interplay between light and dark throughout the composition - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:16
That kind of interplay between light and dark throughout the...
I believe light is crucial to Dutch artists in the 17th century. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:07
I believe light is crucial to Dutch artists in the 17th cent...
All different kinds of lakes, waterways, canals. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:06
All different kinds of lakes, waterways, canals.
So those were kind of mirrors laying in the fields - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:09
So those were kind of mirrors laying in the fields
TACO: We don't know how long Vermeer took to paint a painting, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:11
TACO: We don't know how long Vermeer took to paint a pa...
What we discovered in the research for this exhibition - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:23
What we discovered in the research for this exhibition
And he must have spent hours observing the reflection of light - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:13
And he must have spent hours observing the reflection of lig...
So not kind of thinking about what the theories about it are - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:11
So not kind of thinking about what the theories about it are
And he creates such an illusion through this - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:09
And he creates such an illusion through this
MAN: Vermeer lived in Delft, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:11
MAN: Vermeer lived in Delft,
And of these 23,000, 5,000 were Catholic, so just a quarter. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:06
And of these 23,000, 5,000 were Catholic, so just a quarter.
So it was possible to be Catholic, but the Catholics were not allowed - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:09
So it was possible to be Catholic, but the Catholics were no...
As a Calvinistic-born artist and young man, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:12
As a Calvinistic-born artist and young man,