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Welcome to art types, visual artists such
as johannes vermeer, you do not know the exact
date of birth, it is only known that he was
baptized as a Christian in the protestant
church Nieuwe Kerk of the city of Delft on
October 31, 1632, under the name of Joannis
and died on December 15, 1675, only 43 years
old.
Of his brothers he was the second son, and
only male, of Reynier Jansz and Digna Baltens.
His father came from Antwerp, and in 1611
he moved to Amsterdam, working as a silk weaver,
a trade that belonged to the middle class.
Johannes Vermeer although it is assigned to
the Baroque, shows an important difference
in his works that distance him from the common
Baroque.
These differences are, for example, timelessness
and crystallinity, getting closer to Jan Van

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Heyk, due to the fact that his paintings have
less decoration, his technique is aseptic,
with a crystalline air, clean, refined, and
timeless as if stopping in time a clear and
eternal moment.
Its outstanding work is the young person of
the pearl, This work also is well-known with
the titles of Girl with turban, the Dutch
Mona Lisa and the Mona Lisa of the north and
is considered one of the masterpieces of the
painter Johannes Vermeer realized between
1665 and 1667 .
As the name implies, use a pearl earring as
a focal point.
Thus, in recent writings on Johannes Vermeer
it is emphasized that the image was a tronie,
a name given in Holland in the seventeenth
century to the peculiar and / or expressive
effigies, of decorative use, that did not
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the painters produced to demonstrate their
expertise.
Therefore, in the work highlights the contrast
of color and expression of the girl.
This enhancement is due to the difference
between a very dark background and what can
be seen of the girl's clothed body.
That is to say, almost caravaggian tenebrism
is reflected, although without the dramatic
attitudes of the style, so that the typical
and crystalline tranquility that characterizes
most of the works of Johannes Vermeer is maintained.
The painting is currently in the Mauritshuis
museum in The Hague.
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