Vermeer and the Delft Style
- When: 01/12/2008 - 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
Vermeer and the Delft Style
2 August - 14 December 2008
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
