• Johannes Vermeer

• Dutch (Denmark)• Girl with a Pearl

Earring• Oil on canvas,

• 17 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (44.5 x 39 cm.)

• c. 1665-1667

• Baroque era

• The Hague, The Royal Cabinet of Paintings, Mauritshuis

Notice value changes, notice scale

• Up close look at the face of Girl with Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer

• The Milkmaid

• c. 1657-1658

• Oil on canvas

• 45.5 X 41 cm

• Baroque era

Rjiksmuseum, Amsterdam http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_artists/00017083?page=1&lang=en&context_space=&context_id=

Rendering of texture

• The way texture is rendered refers to how an artist depicts the different materials in a painting. These materials are usually kinds of textile, as well as other various materials such metals, stones, furs etc.

• Artists with an eye for rendering texture try to capture the appearance and structure of the material depicted as accurately as possible thereby imitating the real thing as closely as they can.

• Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window

• painting finished in 1657

Detail of curtain

Take in...

• the texture

• the points of light

• the fact that a curtain in the 17th C represents a very intimate setting

http://vermeer0708.wordpress.com/a-girl-reading-a-letter-by-an-open-window/

• Vermeer and Rembrandt set up the light in a specific point in the picture, but not any point, but the important one. Where the eyes have to be driven, where we should focus our attention. A very good example is in “Girl with a pearl earring” painting. We can consider that there are three main points of light: the face itself, the mouth lower lip and the earring. The important points are reflected with light.

• Johannes Vermeer• Girl with a Pearl

Earring• oil on canvas,

• 17 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (44.5 x 39 cm.)

• Baroque era

• The Hague, The Royal Cabinet of Paintings, Mauritshuis

Proportion, shading, detail...

• Up close look at the face of Girl with Pearl Earring

• Johannes Vermeer

• The Art of Painting

• oil on canvas

• 130 cm x 110 cm• This painting is called The

Art of Painting, but it is also known as The Allegory of Painting or Painter in his studio. Many experts in art believe that this work is an allegory of painting, and thus, the different titles.

• Museum of Vienna

Say the color of the word

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/images/Caroline-portrait.jpg