During his stays in Delft, Montoya liked to recreate the movements that Vermeer would have followed to reach the place from which he painted this work. But Vermeer’s depiction of the city is topographically inaccurate: for the sake of the composition, he manipulated reality in places.
In this masterpiece Vermeer depicted Delft from across its harbour, where transport boats would unload after navigating inland waterways. Bailey was just conjecturing, piecing together facts from the flimsiest of clues because there really isnt much information available about the painter. It is one of three known paintings of Delft by Vermeer, along with The Little Street and the lost painting House Standing in Delft. Amazon Price New from Used from Hardcover "Please retry" CDN$ 18.17 . Marcel Proust said that this was the most beautiful painting in the world and a unique work of art in its genre. In View of Delft Vermeer presents a panoramic view of his home town on the river Schie. The painting, showing a quiet street, depicts a typical aspect of the life in a Dutch Golden Age town. Then Baileys attempts became amusing, then interesting, then appreciated, and finally, sensible. In Johannes Vermeer: Themes …emotional power of Vermeer’s magnificent View of Delft (c. 1660–61) similarly results from his ability to transform an image of the physical world into a harmonious, timeless visual expression. Vermeer: A View of Delft Hardcover – April 16 2001 by Anthony Bailey (Author) 4.8 out of 5 stars 15 ratings. View of Delft is the most famous cityscape of the Dutch Golden Age. At first I was annoyed by the lack of actual information about Vermeers life being presented in Anthony Baileys Vermeer: A View of Delft. All the same, it is as if we have travelled 350 years back in time and are looking at Delft from a top-floor window of a house on the Kolk. The only exception to that may be the detailed Art of Painting.
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1660–1661.The painting of the Dutch artist's hometown is among his most popular, painted at a time when cityscapes were uncommon. The View of Delft was Vermeer's biggest and most tedious work. It is one of only three Vermeer paintings of views of Delft, the others being View of Delft and the now lost House Standing in Delft. At this moment the Mauritshuis home page shows a small reproduction of this painting. Vermeer's 'View of Delft' was the highlight of the 1995-1996 Vermeer exhibition which was first shown in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DCand later on in the Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague. On another homepage the full View of Delftis shown. Since nothing has been given to contemporary viewers concerning the craftsman's goals in respect to this or some of Vermeer's other artwork, history specialists have endeavoured to fill the space with their own interpretation of the piece. View of Delft (Dutch: Gezicht op Delft) is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, painted ca. This painting is considered to be an important work of the Dutch master.