vermeer-astronomer.jpg The same painting, though larger, of the finding of Moses appears in the background of another painting in the exhibition, Vermeer’s Woman Writing a Letter, with Her Maid .

If Vermeer could bring a levitating lightness to a scene, Gerrit Dou could paint one with magical precision, like Astronomer by Candlelight from 1665, where the light itself creates intimacy.

The arrival of “A Lady Writing” and “The Astronomer” — on loan from Washington, D.C., and Paris, respectively — is especially exciting for Boston-area completists, who have no Vermeer ...

Noted sky experts led by a Texas State University astronomer have put their heads together to analyze the specific ... Vermeer was born in October of 1632 and would have been just 36 at the very ...

Vermeer’s paintings are scattered between ten cities in Europe (London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam, The Hague, ... The Astronomer (1668), Musée du Louvre.

The Astronomer (1668) is another aching absence, because the Louvre sent it to its partner museum in Abu Dhabi for 20 months. Stãdel Museum in Frankfurt came through with The Astronomer’s ...

The Louvre’s other Vermeer, “The Astronomer,” had already been promised to the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The pendant piece to it, “The Geographer,” on loan from Frankfurt, is therefore the show ...

Another similar one is The Astronomer, which is in the collection of Louvre but not in this show in Amsterdam. Maps frequently recur. Johannes Vermeer, The Geographer , (1669).