Vermeer Centre
The Vermeer Centre is an information center dedicated to the painter Johannes Vermeer and the work of his contemporaries in Delft, the Netherlands.
The building is a rebuilt version of the old local Guild of Saint Luke. The center works with local archeology groups and other heritage organisations to disseminate information about Delft during the lifetime of Vermeer. The center acts as a museum, though technically it does not own the original artifacts on display and therefore has not earned the Dutch label for "Museum". Based on scale copies of known artworks by Vermeer and his contemporaries, multi-media exhibition displays beginning in the basement lead the visitor literally upwards through time during the life of Johannes Vermeer, explaining the work of contemporaries and events that occurred during his lifetime. In the top floor an exhibition on his work methods is set up, with an opportunity for visitor to pose for a picture as Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid.
The ground floor contains a small gift store and book shop.
See also
- Rembrandthuis, a much longer established museum in Amsterdam focused on the painter Rembrandt
References
- Media related to Vermeercentrum Delft at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
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- List of works
- Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (c. 1655)
- Saint Praxedis (c. 1655)
- Diana and Her Companions (c. 1653–1656)
- The Procuress (1656)
- A Girl Asleep (c. 1657)
- Officer and Laughing Girl (c. 1657)
- The Little Street (c. 1657–1658)
- The Milkmaid (c. 1657–1658)
- Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (c. 1657–1659)
- Girl Interrupted at Her Music (c. 1658–1659)
- The Girl with the Wine Glass (c. 1659–1660)
- The Wine Glass (c. 1660)
- View of Delft (c. 1660–1661)
- Woman with a Water Jug (c. 1660–1662)
- Woman Holding a Balance (c. 1662–1663)
- Woman with a Lute (c. 1662–1663)
- Woman Reading a Letter (c. 1663)
- The Concert (c. 1664)
- Woman with a Pearl Necklace (c. 1664)
- The Music Lesson (c. 1662–1665)
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665)
- A Lady Writing a Letter (c. 1665)
- Girl with a Red Hat (c. 1665–1666)
- Study of a Young Woman (c. 1665–1667)
- Mistress and Maid (c. 1667)
- The Art of Painting (c. 1666–1668)
- The Astronomer (c. 1668)
- The Geographer (c. 1668–1669)
- The Lacemaker (c. 1669–1670)
- The Love Letter (c. 1669–1670)
- Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid (c. 1670–1671)
- The Allegory of Faith (c. 1670–1672)
- Lady Seated at a Virginal (c. 1670–1672)
- Lady Standing at a Virginal (c. 1670–1672)
- A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals (c. 1670–1672)
- The Guitar Player (c. 1672)
- Girl with a Flute (c. 1665–1670)
- The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table (1934 painting)
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999 novel)
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003 film)
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (2008 play)
- Maria Thins (mother-in-law)
- Maria de Knuijt and Pieter van Ruijven (patrons)
- Han van Meegeren
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Delft School (painting)
- Tronie
- Dutch Golden Age painting
- Hockney–Falco thesis
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft
- Vermeer Centre
- All the Vermeers in New York (1990 film)
- Writing to Vermeer (1999 opera)
- Chasing Vermeer (2004 novel)
- Vermeer's Hat (2008 history book)
- Tim's Vermeer (2013 documentary film)
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