VERMEER AND MUSIC/ THE ART OF LOVE AND LEISURE

Art and music brought to luminous life.Vermeer and Music offers a new insight into the significance of music in some of the most pop ular paintings of the Dutch Golden Age. These are not only a reminder of the presence of music in everyday life, but demonstrate how music inspired artists to create new types of pictures. Painters such as Johannes Vermeer, Carel Fabritius and Jan Steen revelled i n the challenge of expressing the melodious, sensual experience of listening to music with visual evocations of the pleasures of per formance...[Read more]