• monograph
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 25 x 24 cm.
  • 205 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 030006239

Vermeer & the Art of Painting

Johannes Vermeer, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.

description

"The exquisite paintings of Jan Vermeer, with their luminous colors and gradations of reflected light, are admired by art lovers everywhere. This lovely book examines the creative process and technical means by which the great Dutch seventeenth-century painter achieved his remarkable pictorial effects. Arthur Wheelock begins by placing Vermeer's art in historical perspective, with emphasis on the artistic environment in his home city of Delft and the importance of history painting in the mid-1600s. He then closely examines seventeen of the thirty-six extant paintings in Vermeer's oeuvre, works that span the range of the artist's career. Using the results of x-rays, pigment analysis, and infrared reflectography, some of the secrets of Vermeer's wonderfully elusive artistry are revealed. For example, Vermeer was able to simulate reality, simplify and highlight meaning, establish a sense of time and permanence, and enhance the mood he wished to create through inventive use of brushwork, color, and compositional refinements. Lavishly illustrated iwht color reporudctions of Vermeer's paintings, this book is certain to appeal to all devotees of Dutch art." -- from interior flap. Includes notes and index. Printed in black-and-white and color.

New Haven / London, CT / United Kingdom: Yale University Press,
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