KNOW BEFORE YOU GO: Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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Passcode: 864161
Join me for a look at the once in a lifetime exhibition of the great Dutch master:
“Vermeer” at the Netherlands’s national museum of art and history presents a total of 28 out of the 37 known paintings by the artist, making the show the most complete survey of the Old Master staged in his home country.
It reunites many works that have been scattered around the world, including seven paintings that have not been back to the Netherlands in 200 years. They hang near other greatest hits that have remained in the Netherlands, including The Milkmaid (c. 1658-59) and The Little Street, both housed at Rijksmuseum, and three from the Mauritshuis in The Hague, an institution best known for being home to the enigmatic Girl with a Pearl Earring (1664-67).
I will put these works in the context of 17th century Dutch society - its tastes, customs, morals and symbols. Paintings of music-making will be accompanied by examples of music of the period.
Recording available if you're not free on the night