Vermeer
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- proper noun
- /vərˈmɪr/
- Everywhere there was light and the color of light, as rich and luminous as a Vermeer painting.
- Vermeer's Girl
- Vermeer's art
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Watch on YouTubeIt's kind of hard to beat really nice Vermeer, like soft window light.
- It's kind of hard to beat really nice Vermeer, like soft window light.
- Proust, Monet, Bruegel, even Botticelli and Vermeer, they show us reality.
- We don't have a reliable portrait of him, but he was the neighbour of Vermeer, the famous Delft painter.
- And my point is, this guy knew more about Vermeer as it was a Vermeer.
- And as Vermeer lamented, as long as there is art, there will be forgery.
- Maybe partly because there was so few Vermeer's that one would know, but certain artists might be easier to fake than others.
Examples
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"There may be forty Vermeer paintings known to exist in the world."
Fiction book (1995) -
Jason thought about the Vermeer exhibit, where the paintings hung room after room, like small windows.
Fiction book (2002) -
Now the question is, did Vermeer use one to create his work?
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It's kind of hard to beat really nice Vermeer, like soft window light.
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Do you know the house of Master Vermeer?
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There were only about forty Vermeer paintings in the world, his mother had told him, at the exhibit.
Fiction book (2002) -
Who can deny the popularity of Vermeer at the National Gallery or Matisse at the Museum of Modern Art?
Academic text (1997) -
It says the Johannes Vermeer's Woman Writing a Letter, with her Maid is one of the most valuable paintings in the world.
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Vermeer's Girl With A Pearl Earring was found by a group of schoolgirls in a changing room of Harvey Nichols.
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Johannes Vermeer is renowned for his captivating painting, "Girl with a Pearl Earring."
Synonyms
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A Dutch painter famous for using light in quiet indoor scenes of people
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A Dutch painter from the 1600s who is known for using light well in quiet indoor scenes
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vermeer is a Dutch family name that comes from van der meer, where meer means 'lake' in Dutch. It originally said someone lived 'by the lake', so the painter's name simply shows where his family came from.