Art history: artists, movements and museums

Woman Reading a Letter by Gabriel Metsu
Vermeer and Gabriel Metsu: women reading, letters and narration
Metsu uses a messenger, a seascape and symbolic objects; Vermeer slows the reading of the scene in a quiet space. Discover their dialogue through letters, the material clue of the... Read more...
The Concert by Johannes Vermeer, three musicians in a Dutch interior
Vermeer and the Dutch painting : codes, innovations and rivalries
How did Vermeer transform Dutch genre painting ? Letter, music and home codes, innovations of light and rivalries with Ter Borch, De Hooch, Metsu and Steen. Read more...