LECTURE 19: VERMEER & REMBRANDT

Question 1

Systems of Representation

Answer 1

1. Way of how someone or something is depicted and how we perceive it
2. these ways of depiction vary depending on culture, time period or the person itself.

Question 2

Portraiture

Answer 2

1. conveys identity
2. close study of one person

Question 3

Genre Painting and its characteristics

Answer 3

1. scenes from everyday life
2. made for houses (not for churches and palaces)

Question 4

Woman holding a balance

Answer 4

1. Johannes Vermeer
2. 1664
3. 40 x 35cm
4. oil on canvas
5. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Widener Collection

Question 5

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Answer 5

1. 1665

2.44 x 39cm

3. Johannes Vermeer
4. Mauritius, The Hague
5. Oil on canvas

Question 6

Rebrandt, Self Portrait

Answer 6

1. 1659
2. 123 x 104cm
3. oil on canvas
4. National Gallery of Art Washington DC, Andrew W. Mello

Question 7

Johannes Vermeer

Answer 7

1632 - 1675

Question 8

Rembrandt van Rijn

Answer 8

1606 - 1669

Question 9

Dutch Republic

Answer 9

1581 - 1795