Vermeer and the Delft Style
- When: 02/08/2008 - 14/12/2008
- Where: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
- Organized by: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, TBS, Asahi Shimbun
- Admission fee: Y
- URL: http://www.tbs.co.jp/vermeer/eng/index.html
Johannes Vermeer is acknowledged as one of the most brilliant painters in the western art history, and also as a mysterious figure that only left some thirty paintings. 350 years after his death, he comes into limelight again. The present exhibition features the paintings by Johannes Vermeer, which are particularly appreciated for their original expression of light and smart touch. Also exhibited are the paintings by the great masters in Delft, who lived in the same age with Vermeer, namely Carel Fabritius, Pieter de Hooch and so forth. There has been no occasion, where the masterpieces of this extent come together in the one exhibition hosted in Japan. This would probably be the first and last exhibition, where these masterpieces captivate your heart.
Below are a few of the paintings you can see at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum.
1. A young woman seated at the virginals
Private collection
2. The little street
©Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
3. The girl with the wineglass
4. A woman nursing
5. View in delft
©The National Gallery, London. Presented by The Art Fund, 1922
