Amsterdam’s famed Rijksmuseum unveiled plans lately to stage the largest-ever exhibition of Johannes Vermeer’s work, together with his iconic Girl With The Pearl Earring.
The groundbreaking show in early 2023 will carry works from museums throughout the globe collectively beneath one roof, to make clear the life and profession of the elusive seventeenth century Dutch grasp.
It is anticipated to raised the exhibition by the Rijksmuseum’s sister Mauritshuis museum in The Hague in 1996, which on the time with some 22 works was essentially the most formidable show of Vermeers to this point.
“With loans from all over the world, this promises to be the largest Vermeer exhibition ever,” the Rijksmuseum stated.
“It promises to have more works” than the 1996 exhibition, Rijksmuseum director Taco Dibbits stated, however he added “we will not have them all.”
Today some 35 works have been attributed to Vermeer, famend for his mastery in using mild, which might be seen in his works just like the Milkmaid, one in every of 4 Vermeers belonging to the Rijksmuseum.
“I was always amazed that over nearly a century of organising exhibitions at the Rijksmuseum, who has four fantastic Vermeers, we have never had a monographic exhibition about him,” Dibbits stated.
The Girl With A Pearl Earring, the much-loved masterpiece which impressed a best-selling novel and a 2003 Hollywood movie starring Scarlett Johansson, shall be on mortgage from the Mauritshuis, which is able to collaborate with the Rijksmuseum on the show.
Very little is learn about Vermeer (1632-1675), who lived a lifetime of modest means within the historic metropolis of Delft in the course of the Dutch “Golden Age” of portray.
“For centuries little importance was attached to his work’s name,” the Rijksmuseum stated, till his rediscovery within the 1870s.
Both museums “will research Vermeer’s artistry, his artistic choices and motivations for his compositions, as well as into the creative process of his paintings,” the Rijksmuseum stated.
Other works on mortgage will embrace Lady Writing A Letter With Her Maid from The National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and Woman Holding A Balance from The National Gallery of Art in Washington.
“Vermeer is somebody who is clouded in mystery, there are so few written sources about him,” Dibbits stated.
“If you want to get to know him better, you need his work and there is something incomparable between sourcing Vermeer and putting all his works together,” he added.
The Vermeer exhibition will run from Feb 10, 2023 to June 4 that yr. – AFP
