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Many art historians think that it is an allegory of painting, [2] hence the alternative title of the painting. Its composition and iconography make it the most complex Vermeer work of all. After Vermeer's Christ in the House of Martha and Mary and The Procuress it is his largest work. This illusionistic painting is one of Vermeer's most famous.
The Allegory of Faith, also known as Allegory of the Catholic Faith, is a Dutch Golden Age painting by Johannes Vermeer from about 1670–1672. It has been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1931.
Detail of the painting The Procuress (c. 1656), proposed self portrait by Vermeer [1] The following is a list of paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), a Dutch Golden Age painter. After two or three early history paintings, he concentrated almost entirely on genre works, typically interiors with one or two figures. Vermeer's paintings of ...
Johannes Vermeer (/ v ər ˈ m ɪər, v ər ˈ m ɛər / vər-MEER, vər-MAIR, Dutch: [joːˈɦɑnəs fərˈmeːr]; see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.
The Art of Painting. Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 2 Jun 2014 at 19:37:15 (UTC). Original – This is a famous 17th-century oil on canvas painting by Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer, also known as The Allegory of Painting, and or Painter in his Studio.
Air (painting) Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power; The Allegory of Faith; Allegory of Fortune; Allegory of Painting and Sculpture; Allegory of the Dutch Defeat of the Spanish Fleet in Gibraltar; Allegory of the Earth; Allegory of the Vanities of the World; Allegory of Vanity and Repentance; Allegory of Wealth; Apollo and Diana ...
Paintings by Johannes Vermeer belonging to the genre of history painting. Pages in category "History paintings by Johannes Vermeer" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Sometimes the meaning of an allegory can be lost, even if art historians suspect that the artwork is an allegory of some kind. [21] Allegory has an ability to freeze the temporality of a story, while infusing it with a spiritual context. Medieval thinking accepted allegory as having a reality underlying any rhetorical or fictional uses. The ...