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
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- BLANKERT, Albert, "Vermeer's Modern Themes and their Traditions," in Johannes Vermeer, Yale University Press, ed. Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., New Haven & London, 1995
- 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