Prince of Persia

Rembrandt and Vermeer

Friday, Feb 10th

Paintings in Paintings- Painting in Houses

Tendency to look at painting in paintings symbolically instead of in other means and has now changed to look wider. Thought earlier as iconographically artists sollo

Vermeer- often used paining in a painting

Vermeer- Woman holding a balance

c 1664 National Gallery of Art Washington

-Serious theme- weighing, judging, honesty

-Taking in the time and Netherland preference - worldly balance. Balance she’s holding is the scales of St. Michael at the last judgment.

-Scene behind her is the last judgment scene. Head is exactly where Michael would be in the painting.

-Don’t know if he had a model for the painting but it’s the common subject with rescrubbed souls at the bottom and heaven at the top with Michael and the scales.

-Personification of vanity as she prepares to weigh the pearls as well as the personification of St. Michael. Multiple possible meaning and associations which was appreciated in the period.

Painting within a painting was adapted and employed in the 17th century though not invented. Originated geographically in the 16th century in …

-Joachim Bueckelaer The Well stocked kitchen

-Genre and still life with a background and neatly framed scene of christ preaching. Contrast in the work as earthy apestites and heaven.

Vermeer, Girl with the wineglass

c1659-60

Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum

-Indulgence and seduction

Vermeer

Woman writing a letter with her maid c1670 NGI

-Finding moses in the bushes painting subject in the background

The astronomer c 1668

-Sam painting but in completely different form. If he’s working with a model he’s not confined by it. Shrink it enlarge it, resize it etc.

Vermeer A young Woman seated at the virginals,

The Concert

-Sam work by Van Buren.The procuress.

Vermeer’s family is thought to have owned Van Buren’s Procuress, either the original or a copy.

Vermeer, Woman Standing at the Virginals.

-Three paintings with her

-Landscape, putti, another landscape - shown in a rhythmic disperse way with her head framed in the middl e

-Suggests Mountain Landscape with travelers could be the model for the large landscape.

Vermeer, The little street, 1657-8 Riksmuseum

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