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Vermeer painted only two paintings devoted to the lands- cape «View of Delft» and «La Alley».
To uncover its mysteries, the experts revealed using non-invasive imaging techniques the presence of objects that Vermeer dutifully concealed by painting over them as if to eliminate any superfluity that might have distracted the gaze from his central subject to which it grants all its importance and its light.
The artist much prefers to clutter the foreground of his paintings so that the eye in perspective focuses on the real subject of his composition.
An exhibition to savor to the rhythm of subtle touches and hues caressed by time.
The Geographer,
Johannes Vermeer, 1669, oil on canvas. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
