View of Delft (Dutch: Zicht op Delft) is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, painted c. 1659–1661. The painting of the Dutch artist's hometown is among his best known. [1] It is one of three known paintings of Delft by Vermeer, along with The Little Street and the lost painting House Standing in Delft, [2] and his only cityscape. [3]

Jan 17, 2023 · View of Delft (Dutch: Gezicht op Delft) is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, painted ca. 1660–1661. The painting of the Dutch artist's hometown is among his most popular, painted at a time when cityscapes were uncommon.

Vermeer's View Delft is probably the most memorable cityscape in western art. Though not an interior scene, as most works by Vermeer are, the painting draws us into his mental and social world: into his artistic vision and into his city.

Photo of View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer. The painting's forcefulness stems in part from its large scale, which allows the viewer to enter into the space, but also from the tangible illusion of reality. Vermeer achieved this through his mastery of light and his ability to create textural effects.

This is the most famous cityscape of the Dutch seventeenth century. The interplay of light and shade, the impressive cloudy sky and the subtle reflections in the water make this painting an absolute masterpiece.

The Delft school is a category of mid-17th-century Dutch Golden Age painting named after the city of its centre, Delft. It is best known for genre painting —images of domestic life, views of households, church interiors, courtyards, squares and the streets of that city.

Oct 14, 2024 · A View of Delft (c.1660–1661) by the city's most famous artist, Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), is a warm evocation of the small, walled city surrounded by the River Schie, intersected by streets and canals. One of two surviving townscapes of Delft by Vermeer, it captures the south-east aspect of the city flanked by the Schiedam and Rotterdam gates.

In the mid-nineteenth century View of Delft was the painting which inspired the French critic Théophile Thoré to rediscover Vermeer. The picture is divided into four horizontal bands: the quay, the water, the town and the sky.

Jan 18, 2024 · Between 1660 and 1661, Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer created three paintings of his hometown, Delft. These are The Little Street , the now-lost House Standing in Delft , and View of Delft , which became one of his most recognizable works.

The interplay of light and shade, the impressive cloudy sky and the subtle reflections in the water make this painting an absolute masterpiece. We are looking at Delft from the south. There is...