The largest exhibition ever held with works by the Dutch painter Vermeer opens this Friday at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and has already broken box office records, with advance sales of more than 200,000 tickets.
According to the museum, 28 of the 37 works whose authorship is attributed to the “17th century master Johannes Vermeer” will be brought together for the first time and the interest already aroused has led to the advance sale of more than 200,000 tickets and the extension of exhibition hours. .
Last November, when the list of Vermeer works to be exhibited was announced, the director of the Rijksmuseum, Taco Dibbits, said that this exhibition is “an unprecedented opportunity” for “all Vermeer lovers, but also for researchers , conservators and art historians” appreciate “such a high number of paintings in one space”.
This is because one of the particularities is the collection of works by Vermeer that are found in 14 museums or private collections in seven countries, including seven paintings that have not been shown in the Netherlands for more than two centuries, the Associated agency wrote. Press.
The Baroque painter, who died almost 350 years ago and about whom little is known about his personal life, will exhibit portraits, landscapes and some religious paintings, which reveal his mastery of the play of light and shadow, says the Rijksmuseum.
Among the works on display, until June 4, are “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, The Milkmaid”, “The Geographer” and “Landscape of Delft”, the city where Vermeer lived and worked.
In addition to the exhibition, the Rijksmuseum is also promoting an online interactive “digital experience” that transports visitors into Vermeer’s universe and allows the paintings to be viewed and enlarged, reproduced in high-resolution photographs.
Source: TSF
