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Johannes Vermeer

Post Date: Jun 12, 2008 8:13 a.m.
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Johanns Vermeer was a noted Dutch painter who specialized in the Dutch Baroque style. He was famous for his art works of domestic interior scenes depicting ordinary life. A painter with a relatively few artworks credited to him, he was for some time forgotten for nearly 200 year. It was an 1866 art critic who revived his reputation as an art master by publishing an essay that attributed 66 paintings to him. And through that, he was acknowledged as one of the greatest painters ever to come out of the Dutch Golden Age in art.Early Life Little has been known of Johannes Vermeer’s life. It was believed that Vermeer was born in 1632 in the city of Delft in the Netherlands. His father, Reynier Jansz was a lower middle class silk worker. His mother, Digna Baltens was from Antwerp. Vermeer’s father later on bought and ran a large inn and sold paintings. When his father died in 1652, Vermeer took his father’s place in selling paintings. Vermeer’s education in the a...

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