THE GUITAR PLAYER

(De gitaarspeelster)

c. 1669-72
oil on canvas
20 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.  (53  x 46.3 cm.)
Kenwood,  English Heritage as Trustees of the Iveagh Bequest

an interactive analysis
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Omnia vincit Amor nec
Musica vincit Amorem
Pieter van Mol, Charles David adn Jean Ier Lebond, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes



listen here to MP3 audio-file of period baroque guitar music....

Folias d'Espagne
by Gaspar Sanz (c. 1640 - c. 1710)
performed by Roland Ferrandi
  • to compile the text of this interactive study, the following resources were used
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  • BLANKERT, Albert, (with contributions by RUURS, Rob and VAN DE WATERING, Willem), Vermeer, Oxford, 1978
  • GOODMAN, Elise, "The Landscapes on the Wall in Vermeer," in The Cambridge Companion Guide to Vermeer, edited by Wayne Franits, Cambridge, 2001, pp. 73-88
  • GOWING, Lawrence, Vermeer, London, 1952 and 1970
  • LIEDTKE, Walter, in Vermeer and the Delft School, edited by Ivan Gaskell and Michiel Jonker, New York, 2001
  • NEVITT, H. Rodney Jr., "Vermeer and the Question of Love," in The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer, edited by Wayne Franits, Cambridge, 2001, pp. 89-110
  • NASH, J. M., Vermeer, London, 199
  • SCHNEIDER, Norbert, Jan Vermeer 1632.1675: Veiled Emotions, Cologne, 1994, p. 46
  • WEBER, Gregor, "Vermeer's Use of the Picture-within-a-Picture: A New Approach," 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. 295-307
  • WHEELOCK, Arthur K. Jr., Vermeer and the Art of Painting, New Haven and London, 1995
  • WHEELOCK, Arthur K. Jr., Jan Vermeer, London 1981, p. 150