Johannes Vermeer

[C53H]

"a lady writing" looks like somone thats about to have a stroke lol

[kaygal1998]

A Lady Writing is not there!

[HeavyMetalDrummer16]

Vermeer's a fucking beast at drawing!! I'm still working on my stickman!!

[edwin11373]

Some people forget that Jan Vermeer paintings are very "unique" because he was the first artist to use extensively the "Camera obscura", a primitve 17th C. camera that projected an upside-down but in color image of the surroundings onto a mirror/optics and then the artist could traced the projected image onto paper/canvas. This explains why some of his works have a slight distorted view as when you see something thru a lens. ("fish-eye" syndrome) Vermeer works are very sophisticated in technique

[Fal13n]

yeah u'r right ...true true

[Hoswendt]

@edwin11373 Johannis Van der Meer used camera obsura in precisely 6 paintings and even painted a part of the camera obscura box in the mirror reflection in the painting "The Music Lesson". However, you cannot say that he traced the images of the other works with the help of camera obsura. He may simply observed the effect and transposed it...

[edwin11373]

@Hoswendt You are probably more correct. I'm pretty sure he didn't traced everything. He used both the camera obscura and his artistic talent because even nature is not perfect enough for the vision of an artist.

[yankeegurl62]

the painting at 1;42 and the Girl with the Pearl earing, I think are his best....the detail that he put into his paintings...breathtaking.....

[taty6xy]

I adore his paintings *.*

[SisiAyu]

They look very lovely :) , and... can i say warm ?

[arwen987]

great video! Vermeer's paintings are typical examples of baroque style. he uses with an excellent way the light, the feel of the objects and the expression of the faces. the girl with a pearl earring is for me the second most important, after mona lisa, painting about a mysterious expression and enygmatic eyes.

[haistaxD]

hahahaha wtf?

[penfloyd]

The exquisite use of light....

He gave us a wonderful insight into 17th century Dutch Life...

I visited the Dutch Masters when it came to Melbourne......

Thanks for posting.....

[artbabee]

Great video! Thank you for posting it.

[chunch25]

i love vermeer so much

[GenericGene]

A great master, such detail in his work, Great Post Thanks.

[arnoldo667]

from my point of view i have to say he is among the biggest artist ever, if not the most, hes one of a few masters of lighting.

[osiriscorr]

Thank You. What is this music? Who is author of the music?

[orchestraOne]

@osiriscorr:

Mozart - Serenade Nr. 6 - 3. Satz "Rondo"

[KarlAmade]

@orchestraOne

True, but it is what I consider raped. The lack of Early Music knowledge ruins the inner magic of this music... And I find it a bit awkward putting a pseudo performance of Mozart to these paintings, they are mid baroque :P At least it should be historically informed...

But again - it would be better with some rusty, rough and most deep French mid baroque music as Marais or Lully. And of course authentically played... I feel a powerful urge to enlighten people about Early Music :)

[paulcumes]

wow, what a painter!

[acerb45666555]

Durers Equal!!

[uweetwel]

Not truly comparable...

[Onlyjasonhere]

vermeer > everything else

[Ankhsnammon]

I imagine ever you like the girl with the pearl earring...

so simple,sweet,tender and with a creative light in all his phisonomy...

Nina

[mirasoltwins]

how'd you end up clicking on this video then?

[erzbet07]

Lovely video showcasing Mr. Vermeer.  His Lady with the Pitcher is utterly amazing. It just glows. The cityscape with river at the end was very nice too. Thank you for sharing the world of Vermeer with all of us.

[birceng]

Vermeer is fantastic...I love his work!! Awesome!

Dutch are great

[teenagepuma]

we r doing a book called Chasing Vermeer at school and a lady writing is stolen and it has loads of his paintings in it

[Slammok]

The best painter of all time, in my book anyway.

[BlondieRunner12]

I am glad you made this.

I am a decendent of Johannes himself and I love looking at famous paintings from him. I really appriciate it.

[Misri83]

The Dutch and Flemish were by far the most innovative regions during the Baroque.

Johannes Vermeer, Peter Paul Rubens, and Frans Hals are amongst the most innovative and sensitive artists of all European history. It really was a Dutch Renaissance.

[SabraMagdalena]

I love Vermeer! They were all by him, weren't they? Which two weren't his?

[Buecherfee1895w]

beautiful pictures and beautiful music. This Clip is very great.

[ayakuma]

Thanks for this beautiful video.

Vermeer is one of the best Dutch painter in my opinion

[BlondieRunner12]

I just felt the urge to say thank you to this comment. I am a decendantof Johannes himself and a comment to him, is like a comment to me!

[marcellny]

Vermeer is not only the best Dutch painter, but one of the best in the whole world if not among the top ten.

[kitchenmaid7]

Thanks for posting. Let's hope they will find the stolen 'Concert' soon. Check out my video, looking for the vase that was stolen together with the 'Concert' from Isabella Gardner museum

[marmita]

Sorry but most of the paintings you show were not painted by Vermmeer.

[pelimencheta]

then I believe that in your video they are such ;)

[marmita]

You are correct, but I show more (36) than the 34 he really painted. The problem resides in the fact that nobody, till now, could garantie which 2 to discard...

[MartaRomanca]

I love how he paint...he is my favorite painter:)

[jreimers]

He is the best, I love him and I love the book about Griet...