Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who was able to produce products of such quality. He was able to paint photographic like paintings that depicted what wealthy business men desired. He was poor his whole life despite being a great painter, but he personally kept his best painting as a showpiece to potential buyers. This piece is known as The Art of Painting. The painting is influential because it is inviting to the viewer, is photographic like, and it contains a woman who is known to be the muse of history. It depicts Vermeer himself dressed prestigiously in a adequate art studio performing a portrait of the muse who wears a crown and holds a trumpet and
Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who was able to produce products of such quality. He was able to paint photographic like paintings that depicted what wealthy business men desired. He was poor his whole life despite being a great painter, but he personally kept his best painting as a showpiece to potential buyers. This piece is known as The Art of Painting. The painting is influential because it is inviting to the viewer, is photographic like, and it contains a woman who is known to be the muse of history. It depicts Vermeer himself dressed prestigiously in a adequate art studio performing a portrait of the muse who wears a crown and holds a trumpet and