Coming soon: a series on Vermeer with Tomaso Montanari: titled "Vermeer's Silences"

On Friday, December 21, 2018, at 9:15 p.m., Rai 5 will air the first episode of a new series dedicated to Johannes Vermeer (Delft, 1632 - 1675): it is I silenzi di Vermeer (Vermeer’s Silences), a documentary with art historian Tomaso Montanari, directed by Luca Criscenti and produced by Land Comunicazioni. In the series, Montanari will follow in Vermeer’s footsteps, starting from his earliest trials (such as Diana and the Nymphs or Christ in the House of Martha and Mary) and arriving at the great masterpieces such as The Girl Pouring Milk and not forgetting the very famous tronies (studies of women’s heads), such as the very famous Girl with a Pearl Earring.

“In 1921, when a major exhibition on Dutch painting was organized in Paris,” reads the presentation of the series, "Johannes Vermeer was little more than an unknown. In fact someone, Van Gogh among the first, had begun to take notice of him. But it is Marcel Proust, who had visited the exhibition, who consecrates him. The great novelist was thunderstruck by one of his canvases, The View of Delft, and dedicated a memorable page of his long novel In Search of Lost Time to that work. From that moment on, the Dutch painter’s fame knows no rest: beloved by the avant-garde, by early 20th-century American collectors and by an art marketing that stakes everything, in a very unscientific way, on one of his small paintings, The Girl with the Pearl Earring.“ Vermeer’s is ”the story of a great painter from small seventeenth-century Holland, born in a provincial town, dying young and soon forgotten," which begins in the canals of Amsterdam, the countryside of the Netherlands and the streets of Delft.

After documentaries dedicated to Bernini and Caravaggio, Montanari thus returns to Rai 5 to tell the story of one of the artists most loved by the public.

Pictured: a photogram from the series The Silences of Vermeer

Coming soon: a series on Vermeer with Tomaso Montanari: titled "Vermeer's Silences"

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