El astronomy de jan vermeer biography
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The Astronomer, by Johannes Vermeer
The most intriguing link is that which lies latent in two paintings by Vermeer. In and , a man in his late thirties posed for the painter as he worked on two seemingly associated pictures with scientific themes.
El astronomy de jan vermeer biography
These were Vermeer's only two paintings - at least the only two to survive - with solitary male figures as their protagonists; today the pictures are called The Astronomer and The Geographer, though the titles have varied in the past.
In they were auctioned as "A work depicting a Mathematical Artist, by Vander Meer"and "A ditto by the same". When they came up for sale again a few years later they were described as "An Astrologer" and "A repeat" - i.e. another one of the same profession - and were referred to as 'extra choice'.
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Later still, the 'Geographer' as he is now called was re-identified as '"an Architect" or "a Surveyor". Obviously Vermeer intended the two men to be scholarly types. Although the "Astronomer" has no telesco