Description: Connecting Vermeer - A digital research platform featuring interactive data visualisations for exploring the web of connections between Johannes Vermeer and his contemporaries.
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Contrary to popular belief, Johannes Vermeer was not a genius working in isolation. He was one of a network of Dutch artists who excelled in painting scenes of everyday life and drew inspiration from each other’s work.
Discover this network and explore the connections between the artists and their paintings.
For many art lovers and museum visitors, Johannes Vermeer stands out as the mysterious genius of Dutch seventeenth-century genre painting. However, as this website reveals, he was not working in isolation.