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Want to See All the Vermeers in the World? Now’s Your Chance | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Want to See All the Vermeers in the World? Now’s Your Chance | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By New York Times |Amsterdam |Published: December 4, 2018 3:40:02 pm

Want to See All the Vermeers in the World? Now’s Your Chance

The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, which owns what is perhaps Vermeer’s best-known masterpiece, “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” has teamed up with Google Arts & Culture in Paris to build an augmented-reality app that creates a virtual museum featuring all of the artist’s works.

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All the institutions contributing to the app sent high-resolution digital images of their Vermeers. Here, “The Procuress” being photographed for the project at the Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden State Art Museums. (Source: Dresden State Art Museums, via Mauritshuis/Google Arts & Culture)
Johannes Vermeer, whose acute eye captured the quiet beauty of Dutch domestic life, was not a prolific artist: Just 36 paintings are widely acknowledged as his work. Still, anyone who wanted to see them all had to travel far and wide — to New York, London, Paris and beyond.
Until now.
The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, which owns what is perhaps Vermeer’s best-known masterpiece, “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” has teamed up with Google Arts & Culture in Paris to build an augmented-reality app that creates a virtual museum featuring all of the artist’s works.
For the app, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has contributed images of all five of its Vermeer masterpieces, while the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, each with four, have also given photographs of theirs. Two more have come from the Louvre, and three from the Frick Collection. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston has shared an image of “The Concert,” the Vermeer that disappeared after being stolen from the museum’s collection in 1990.


That painting will be on view once again in Meet Vermeer, the digital museum. Starting Monday, the free app will be accessible to anyone with a camera-equipped smartphone.

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