Metropolitan_Musuem

Metropolitan Musuem The “Vermeer and the Delft School” exhibition in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is being displayed from March 8th till May 27th, 2001. The exhibit includes various paintings, “About 85 paintings by 30 artists- including 15 by Vermeer and 10 by Pieter de Hooch- and selected groups of drawings, tapestries, silver, and ceramics reveal for the first time Delft’s artistic stature in the 17th century.” (Catalog) Some works of art that I will talk about are some of the most famous in the exhibit such as The Courtyard of a House in Delft painted by Hooch, Girl with the Red Hat, The Art of Painting, and Allegory of faith both painted by Vermeer. Vermeer is credited for only twenty- nine paintings in his lifetime, sometimes thirty. So how could he be so famous I thought' That could be answered with just one walk around the gallery. His “approach vermeer, art, painting, light, delft, paintings, behind, works, viewer, space, source, school, painted, one, house, hooch, famous, exhibit, curtain, courtyard, composition, coming, catalog, artistic, around, about, vermeer, york, work, without, within, window, walk, vermeer’s, various