L'Ambition de Vermeer. Sculpture Itineraries of museums and monuments

Itineraries of museums and monuments in Italy

we must go back in time

over the last sixty years

Cette exposition propose une analyse approfondie de l'œuvre à travers trois axes : - un retour sur les sources iconographiques du tableau (imagerie populaire

L'Ambition de Vermeer. Sculpture Itineraries of museums and monumentsTo a modern eye, what distinguishes Vermeer from his contemporaries, Metsu, Ter Borch or De Hooch, is the aura of mystery that emanates from his paintings. This all too common feeling has given rise to a vast literature, which is not always free of commonplaces. This poetic quality, singular and incontestable, is precisely the subject of this book. But it is not considered here as an ineffable dimension: as Daniel Arasse suggests, Vermeer, on the