Jan Vermeer - Finestre sull'Arte

Vermeer for the first time in Turin: the Woman in Blue at Palazzo Madama

From March 5 to June 29, 2026, Palazzo Madama in Turin is hosting in the Atelier Room one of the best-known works by Johannes Vermeer (Delft, 1632 - 1675), Woman in Blue on loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. This is the first time that Turin has...
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A Vermeer masterpiece arrives in Turin from the Rijksmuseum: Woman in Blue Reading a Letter at Palazzo Madama

Coming to Turin 's Palazzo Madama from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will be Johannes Vermeer's Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, starring from March 5 to June 29, 2026 in a new project entitled Encounter with the Masterpiece. The initiative inaugurates...
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Vermeer and the fascination of letters: three masterpieces by the Dutch master on display at the Frick Collection

In New York City, the Frick Collection reopens to visitors on April 17, 2025 after building renovations at 1 East 70th Street, and to inaugurate its new special exhibition galleries, from June 18 to September 8, 2025, it will host an exhibition dedic...
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Is there a collective identity to which we conform? In Guarene the reflection of twenty artists

From Sept. 23 to Nov. 19, 2023, at the Palazzo Re Rebaudengo in Guarene (Cuneo), the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents Who Will Be, curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol with Michele Bertolino. An exhibition path articulated through the works...
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Supercult. Arthur Wheelock and Ben Broos on Jan Vermeer.

This young girl stares at the concerning with her liquid eyes and half-open mouth and in the process radiates purity, drawing all gazes to her. Her soft, smooth skin is as spotless as the surface of her large, tear-shaped pearl earring. Like a vision...
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Two new facts about Johannes Vermeer's life discovered

Two new discoveries about the life of Johannes Vermeer (Delft, 1632 - 1675), the great seventeenth-century Dutch artist, have emerged during preparations for the exhibition Vermeer's Delft that will be hosted by the Prinsenhof Museum in Delft, the pa...
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Rijksmuseum, masterpieces for major Vermeer exhibition announced. New research on some famous paintings

Opening on Feb. 10 and on view until June 4, 2023, is the major exhibition that the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is dedicating to Johannes Vermeer, showcasing works by the celebrated artist from around the world. A team of curators, conservators and rese...
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Did Vermeer have a workshop? Washington announces groundbreaking discoveries about the artist

In the collective imagination, Jan Vermeer is considered a solitary genius. In reality, he may have had a workshop and collaborators who had to help him realize his works. This is the conclusion reached by the National Gallery in Washington on the ba...
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