Johannes Vermeer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Dutch painter
Date of Birth: 31-Oct-1632
Place of Birth: Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Date of Death: 15-Dec-1675
Profession: painter, art collector
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Johannes Vermeer
- Johannes Vermeer (UK: , US: , Dutch: [jo?'??n?s f?r'me?r]; October 1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life.
- He was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime but evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, and frequently used very expensive pigments.
- He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.Vermeer painted mostly domestic interior scenes.
- "Almost all his paintings are apparently set in two smallish rooms in his house in Delft; they show the same furniture and decorations in various arrangements and they often portray the same people, mostly women."He was recognized during his lifetime in Delft and The Hague, but his modest celebrity gave way to obscurity after his death.
- He was barely mentioned in Arnold Houbraken's major source book on 17th-century Dutch painting (Grand Theatre of Dutch Painters and Women Artists), and was thus omitted from subsequent surveys of Dutch art for nearly two centuries.
- In the 19th century, Vermeer was rediscovered by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Théophile Thoré-Bürger, who published an essay attributing 66 pictures to him, although only 34 paintings are universally attributed to him today.
- Since that time, Vermeer's reputation has grown, and he is now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.
- Like some major Dutch Golden Age artists such as Frans Hals and Rembrandt, Vermeer never went abroad.
- And like Rembrandt, he was an avid art collector and dealer.
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Source: Het Mauritshuis: De jonge Vermeer
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Johannes Vermeer
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| Alternative names | Johannes van der Meer, Jan Vermeer, Jan Vermeer van Delft, Johannes Reyniersz. Vermeer | ||
| Description | Dutch painter and art dealer | ||
| Date of birth/death | (baptised) | (buried) | |
| Location of birth/death | Delft | Delft | |
| Work period | 1653–1675 | ||
| Work location | Delft (1653–1675) | ||
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Source: Het Mauritshuis: De jonge Vermeer
License: CC-PD-Mark
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