"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Given the popularity of the exhibition, large public libraries will also want to purchase.Ĭopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Wheelock Jr., including Vermeer: The Complete Works, and Vermeer, and more on. Although some claims made about the artist lack written documentation, this carefully researched work is recommended for fine arts collections. The excellent, full-size color plates are accompanied by brief descriptions of provenance, exhibitions, and technique. Wheelock, Jr., Curator of Northern Baroque Painting at the National Gallery of Art has written an illuminating essay on the artist and commentaries on the. The essay on the artist's use of perspective is the most remarkable because it enables the reader to understand the technician behind the artist X-radiographs, included throughout the book, detail how Vermeer used a pin and a string to exercise his near-perfect perspective in his paintings. Through the bits of evidence gleaned from Vermeer's life and 17th-century historical fact, Wheelock has pieced together Vermeer's artistic and geographical influences. Rembrandts Late Religious Portraits Vermeer and the Art of Painting Johannes. To coincide with the exhibition, curator Wheelock has put together a thoroughly researched catalog of the exhibition's 23 works. See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Wheelock Jr., Arthur K. Despite the federal budget crisis and thanks to private monies, the Vermeer exhibition at the National Gallery is underway.
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