Vermeer, faith in painting:

By examining Vermeer's approach to image-making, the author finds that his works demonstrate the concept of painting as a medium through which the viewer senses the ungraspable and mysterious presence of life. Not only does this concept of painting carry on the traditions of Classical Antiquity...

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Main Author: Arasse, Daniel 1944-2003 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 1994
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Links:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin031/93033549.html
Summary:By examining Vermeer's approach to image-making, the author finds that his works demonstrate the concept of painting as a medium through which the viewer senses the ungraspable and mysterious presence of life. Not only does this concept of painting carry on the traditions of Classical Antiquity and the High Renaissance, but it also relates to Catholic ideas about spiritual meditation and the power of images
Abstract:Through a historical analysis of Vermeer's method of production and a close reading of his art, Daniel Arasse explores the originality of this artist in the context of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Arguing that Vermeer was not a painter in the conventional, commercial sense of his Dutch colleagues, Arasse suggests that his confrontaton with painting represented a very personal and ambitious effort to define a new pictorial practice within the classical tradition of his art
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-132) and index
Physical Description:xiii, 136 p., [61] p. of plates ill. (some col.) : 24 cm
ISBN:0691033625