An ode to the Dutch artist whose works continue to amaze the modern sphere. Two series in which we try to understand what a great mind goes through in the process of creation.
Detail Collection by Gary Schwartz is an introduction to the work of the great Dutch artist through the most attractive and evocative details of his painting. While they seem to bear witness to the reality of the seventeenth century, objects of everyday life and feminine figures are loaded with a timeless poetry that Vermeer reaches with an uncommon power of suggestion.
The hundred and forty details carefully chosen for the book are organized by themes.
Grande Monographie Collection by Gilles Aillaud, John Michael Montias and Albert Blankert covers the art of Vermeer rediscovered at the end of the 19th century that never ceased to intrigue, to amaze. Vermeer indeed is different: of his Dutch contemporaries, of his century, of all painting.
With this unavoidable monograph originally published in 1986, the reader will have at the same time an indispensable tool to the knowledge of Vermeer and an opportunity to return endlessly and in the most seductive conditions on the work no doubt the most meditative in the history of Western painting.
Exhibition will take place at the Louvre Museum, from 22 of February to May 22.
