Dutch Golden Age · c. 1666
Johannes Vermeer 1632–1675
Kunsthistorisches Museum · Vienna
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Step inside a room Vermeer never sold. The Art of Painting hung in his Delft home until his death — he knew it was unlike anything he had made. Painted around 1666, it dresses self-examination as quiet domesticity: a curtain, a map, a painter reaching for his canvas.
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