Dutch Painter Vermeer

Given his exalted reputation in the late 20th century, it is a little hard to believe that the painter's works lay in obscurity for decades, not receiving significant attention after his death until the mid-19th century. The intimate scale of his paintings that is now revered was for a substantial period of time a liability. For example Gowing (1970) writes that "nowhere else are the complicated references of Western painting so resolved" (p. 17).

Relatively little is known of Vermeer, a point that now adds to his reputation. This coupled with the fact that only about 40 paintings generally recognized to be his survive lends an air of mystery to the life of this painter, a sense of the artist as an unknown entity that is enhanced by the seeming lack of emotional narrative and personal references in his work. For example, Arasse (1994, p. 15) notes that despite the fact that Vermeer and his wife, Catherina, raised 11 children, not a single child ever appears in any of his interior scenes  this despite the fact that children were common in oth

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