The Time of Vermeer. The Enigmatic Genius of the Baroque and the Dawn of Modernity
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Jan Vermeer died three and a half centuries ago, having lived only 43 years. He left behind about 30 small paintings. These are not epic battle scenes, they do not depict famous people or significant events. There is no Rembrandtian dramatism or Rubensovskogo stormy festivity. These are subtle, chamber, breathing calm work. This is soft light pouring from the window. These are ordinary people, immersed in their own world, busy with everyday affairs. Here is a woman reading a letter. There's another playing the lute. A lacemaker bent over her work. The artist is painting a picture.Why did it happen that these few and seemingly discreet works still attract our attention and keep so many mysteries? Why do not subside disputes about their provenance, about the many fakes and imitations? Why every Vermeer painting gathers crowds of spectators around it, no matter what exhibition it appears at, and why every museum that has the good fortune to own at least one painting by the master is proud of it as a real treasure?Alexandra Persheeva, PhD in Art History, specialist in semiotics and general theory of art, lecturer at the School of Design of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, co-author of popular online courses on art and design (the total number of course listeners has already exceeded 100 thousand) in her book not only talks about Vermeer's painting, but also becomes for the reader a guide to the world of Dutch art, paints a vivid picture of the era in which formed that without which it is impossible to imagine modernity: Science, rational thinking, international trade, and the swchobodny art market. It becomes clear in what context Vermeer's work took shape and why it became what we know it to be. Alexandra will reveal to the reader the depth and charm of Jan Vermeer's painting, show how he influenced and continues to influence world art and why today, centuries after the master's death, his work remains appealing to us.
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