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High resolution images - Vermeer and more (Memory of the Netherlands)
Kaldenbach Dear list member,
The web site "Memory of the Netherlands" is a vast digitalisation project of the Royal Dutch Library - now well on its way. I would like to point out some great possibillities.
By now all of the Mauritshuis Vermeer paintings - and all other paintings by other artists prior to 1800 - are available in all sizes, including an extra large size for teaching presentation and for research purposes, or just for eye candy.
This is a 10 step list how to go about for getting them:
click
http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl
then click the EN for English (this toggle is on the right hand side) if text is in Dutch
then click the red bars for Collections
then scroll down and go to Mauritshuis (Girl Pearl Earring logo) then click search (on the left hand side menu)
in "Who" fill in Vermeer
click the top painting gezicht op Delft = View of Delft go to dropdown menu "select size" for Extra Large click your mouse to save image to your disk the menu now proposes to call this file "resolver.pl"
change this manually into viewofdelft.jpg if you wish to store it intelligently for safe keeping.
Another Vermeer favourite:
The Diana and her Nymphs will show you the result of the latest restoration in which the right hand top section was altered from 18th c prussian blue sky to brownish black cave background. This alteration has changed the entire spatial character of the painting. Print it and file it in your Vermeer art book which probably has an out of date picture in it.
Yet another stunning Vermeer is the "Girl with the Pearl Earring" which
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to my art historian's mind really should be renamed "Girls with the Silver Pendant Earring" - although I fear this title will not really
catch on. Whether she is wearing a likely silver pendant or an unlikely pearl earring - today I visited her in the museum and fell in love with her again for a few minutes. Such is the power of great art.
Apart from the complete Mauritshuis images there are hundreds of thousands of other images to download and study from this site. Enjoy.
Yours sincerely, Drs. Kees Kaldenbach Amsterdam
kalden@xs4all.nl
www.johannesvermeer.info
Reference:
WWW: High resolution images - Vermeer and more (Memory of the Netherlands). In: ArtHist.net, Feb 29, 2004 (accessed Feb 27, 2022), <https://arthist.net/archive/26216>.
