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Saw this picture at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. There are a couple funny things about it: * It is surprisingly small * It is kinda "fuzzy" or "blurry

Saw this picture at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. There are a couple funny things about it: * It is surprisingly small * It is kinda "fuzzy" or "blurry", you can't detect too much brushwork. * It is very expressive But my favorite Vermeer is not this, it is View of Delft, also in the Mauritshuis. The colors, hues and textures on it are just amazing. For Brazilians, a funny curiosity: Mauritshuis means House of Maurice. It is really the former residence of Maurice of Nassau (Maurício de Nassau), the governor of the Dutch colonies in Brazil. This museum also have some interesting works by Rugendas and other painters showing life in colonial Brazil and a very cool collection of puppets made with bread paste showing life in colonial Indonesia. The Mauritshuis is a very good reason to visit The Hague. If you go there take a walk to the M.C. Escher museum too.

djsavvy 1y ago
Wow, View of Delft is beautiful! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Vermeer-view-of-delft.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Vermeer-...
- bzhang255 1y ago
  I feel obliged to point anyone interested to Proust on Vermeer: https://www.essentialvermeer.com/proust/proust.html https://www.essentialvermeer.com/proust/proust.html
- anigbrowl 1y ago
  It's worth a visit if you're in the Netherlands. Large parts of the town are the same as they've been for centuries.
technothrasher 1y ago
My favorite is The Little Street. (https://www.johannesvermeer.org/the-little-street.jsp https://www.johannesvermeer.org/the-little-street.jsp). I just love the quiet calmness of it. I had a copy of it made from one of those cheap Asian oil painting places online (the frame I put it in cost me more than the painting!), and was surprised what a good job the artist did. When I went to Amsterdam a few years ago, I made a point to go see the real one. But I wondered how well I'd visually remember my copy in order to make a direct comparison to the actual painting. I remembered well enough to be blown away by the real one. As pleased as I am with me copy, it's definitely not the same.
- reformdEngineer 1y ago
  Which service did you use for the recreation? Would like to do something similar. Currently have been doing high quality glossy prints from high-res images like this but a real painting with texture would be great.

djsavvy 1y ago

Wow, View of Delft is beautiful! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Vermeer-view-of-delft.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Vermeer-...

bzhang255 1y ago
I feel obliged to point anyone interested to Proust on Vermeer: https://www.essentialvermeer.com/proust/proust.html https://www.essentialvermeer.com/proust/proust.html
anigbrowl 1y ago
It's worth a visit if you're in the Netherlands. Large parts of the town are the same as they've been for centuries.

technothrasher 1y ago

My favorite is The Little Street. (https://www.johannesvermeer.org/the-little-street.jsp https://www.johannesvermeer.org/the-little-street.jsp). I just love the quiet calmness of it. I had a copy of it made from one of those cheap Asian oil painting places online (the frame I put it in cost me more than the painting!), and was surprised what a good job the artist did. When I went to Amsterdam a few years ago, I made a point to go see the real one. But I wondered how well I'd visually remember my copy in order to make a direct comparison to the actual painting. I remembered well enough to be blown away by the real one. As pleased as I am with me copy, it's definitely not the same.

reformdEngineer 1y ago
Which service did you use for the recreation? Would like to do something similar. Currently have been doing high quality glossy prints from high-res images like this but a real painting with texture would be great.