Woman Reading a Letter is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, produced in around 1663. It has been part of the collection of the City of Amsterdam since the Van der Hoop bequest in 1854, and in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam since it opened in 1885, the first Vermeer it acquired.

I love this for its many different shades of one colour…

#vermeer #blues #dutchpainting #amsterdam #17thcentury

"[O]ne could even argue that “Hunters in the Snow” and “Skating Near a Town” aren’t landscape paintings so much as they are climate paintings."

On #DutchPainting in the #LittleIceAge

https://daily.jstor.org/climate-canvasses-of-the-little-ice-age/

#ArtHistory #Brueghel #IceSkating

"One can’t fault a show for being popular. But I remain struck by the myopia and the missed opportunity of a physically gigantic exhibition space that dwarfed the 28 Vermeers in it, built around the blandest of themes that a high-school student could have scribbled on the back of an envelope in half an hour."

@[email protected] on the Rijksmuseum #Vermeer exhibit:

https://surekhadavies.substack.com/p/vermeer-how-not-to-curate-an-exhibition

#ArtHistory #DutchPainting #histodons

Another Cubomania image based on Peter Breughel the Elders 'Triumph of Death'

The Cubomania technique enables us to pick out different elements of the narrative in the painting, view it with a cinematic eye. Each rectangular element could form the basis of a new painting or story.

#Cubomania #DutchPainting #Surrealism #Breughel #Dada #MastoArt #DigitalArt #Collage #DigitalStorytelling