Jan vermeer biography cortado

Another gem among these interiors with a housewife is the superb little Vermeer which is variously called a Woman at a Casement, or with a Jug.

The woman is merely letting in the morning air as she tidies up, but she tidies up with a gesture as grand as that of a sibyl by Michelangelo. The grandeur is of the essence, and not stylistically imputed. Vermeer had seen and remembered precisely such an attitude as the daily ritual which made his home a delight was being accomplished.

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He records it with gratitude and affection, enhances it by every compositional device which might express its dignity and convey the character of the place. All his perfections in balance and manipulation of light-creating and form-giving colour are so quietly present in this picture that it is easy to overlook them.

For concentrated elegance in feeling and tone, the little Girl making Lace, has no rival. And again it is not any elegance arbitrarily imposed upon the e