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Looking behind the curtain with Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter of the sixteenth century. He lived his entire life in the city of Delft and is known mostly for his paintings of domestic household scenes, mostly using the same rooms inside his own home. He’s been called the ‘master of light’, though that title has been given to a…

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Emotion and Intensity in Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio was an artist of the Baroque period. He was a revolutionary painter and is considered to be a pioneer of the Baroque style. His realistic style created a name for him in the art world, using ‘tenebrism’ (extreme contrast between light and dark) to highlight in his paintings where he wanted…