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Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition

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Duration
6 seconds
Views
33
Timestamp in Movie
01:27:41
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...
You hear the sound of everything in that room. You can hear it. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:07
You hear the sound of everything in that room. You can hear ...
This deep religious connotation is something that he imbibes so deeply - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:09
This deep religious connotation is something that he imbibes...
This is a deeply religious world, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:10
This is a deeply religious world,
TACO: Vermeer married into a very rich family, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:08
TACO: Vermeer married into a very rich family,
But when he died in 1675, in the cold December month, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:11
But when he died in 1675, in the cold December month,
His wife tells that he dies frenetic, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:10
His wife tells that he dies frenetic,
A lot of families in the Netherlands went through this - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:14
A lot of families in the Netherlands went through this
And Vermeer suffered from that, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:08
And Vermeer suffered from that,
PIETER: When you think about him as a person, as a human being, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:07
PIETER: When you think about him as a person, as a human bei...
I mean, as a father of a huge family of young children, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:09
I mean, as a father of a huge family of young children,
When you think about his wife, who was 44, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:12
When you think about his wife, who was 44,
So, time was crucial, not only in the paintings by Vermeer - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:14
So, time was crucial, not only in the paintings by Vermeer
Vermeer is the most unformulaic painter. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:05
Vermeer is the most unformulaic painter.
He knew that paint was a material, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:09
He knew that paint was a material,
Look at the speck of light on the earring - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:16
Look at the speck of light on the earring
You can't even see that it's been done with a brushstroke. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:05
You can't even see that it's been done with a brus...
It just sort of emerges by magic. - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:06
It just sort of emerges by magic.
The simplicity of his paintings, the intimacy, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:20
The simplicity of his paintings, the intimacy,
And I think it's that human skill, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:10
And I think it's that human skill,
He was an artist who created from his imagination, - Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition 00:13
He was an artist who created from his imagination,