THE ART OF PAINTING
(De Schilderkonst)
c. 1662- 1668
oil on canvas
47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in. (120 X 100 cm.)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
an interactive analysis *
scroll your cursor over the 27 different areas of the painting or the 3 special topics below that interest you.
"Through our art
we shall wrest ourselves from the voracity of mortality, and
triumph in
spite of death - the strangler of all things - and
shall flourish from one century to the next without withering."
title page of Philis Angel's
Lof der schilder-konst
(In Praise of
Painting)
Leiden, 1642
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De Schilderkonst
mp3 audio files courtesy marco schuffelen
the following resources were
used for this interactive study:- BERKEL, Klaas van, WADUM, Jørgen, ZANDVLIET, K., with contribution from EKKART, Rudi, The Scholarly World of Vermeer, Zwolle, 1996
- BLANKERT, Albert, (with
contributions by RUURS, Rob and VAN DE WATERING, Willem), Vermeer,
Oxford, 1978
- GOWING, Lawrence, Vermeer, London, 1952 and 1970
- LIEDTKE, Walter, in Vermeer and the Delft School, ed.by Ivan Gaskell und Michiel Jonker New York, 2001, pp. 394-398
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of Painting," in Vermeer Studies,
edited by Ivan
Gaskell and Michiel Jonker, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Yale University Press, New Haven, London 1998, pp. 284-293 - NASH, J. M., Vermeer, London, 1991, pp.199-126
- SLUIJTER, Eric Jan, "Vermeer Fame, and Female Beauty: The Art of Painting," in Vermeer Studies, ed.by Ivan Gaskell und Michiel Jonker, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Yale University Press, New Haven, London 199, pp. 265-283
- STEADMAN, Phillip, Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces, 2001
- WELU, A., "Vermeer: His Cartographic Sources." Art Bulletin 57, 1975, pp. 529-547
- WHEELOCK, Arthur K. Jr., Jan Vermeer, London 1981, p. 112
- VERGARA, Alejandro, Vermeer and the Dutch Interior, Madrid,
2003
de WINKEL, Marieke, "The Interpretation of Dress in Vermeer's Painting," in Vermeer Studies, edited by Ivan Gaskell and Michiel Jonker, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Yale University Press, New Haven, London 1998, pp. 327-339
- WHEELOCK, Arthur K. Jr., Vermeer and the Art of Painting, New Haven and London, 1995, pp. 128-139