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The Art of Painting
''The Art of Painting'', also known as ''The Allegory of Painting'', or ''Painter in his Studio'', is a 17th-century oil on canvas painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. Many art historians believe that it is an allegory of painting, hence the alternative title of the painting. After Vermeer's ''Christ in the House of Martha and Mary'' it is the largest work by the master. Its composition and iconography also make it the most complex Vermeer work of all.
This illusionistic painting is one of Vermeer's most famous. Svetlana Alpers describes it as unique and ambitious.〔Svetlana Alpers (1983) ''The Art of Description. Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century'', p. 119.〕 Walter Liedtke describes it "as a virtuoso display of the artist's power of invention and execution, staged in an imaginary version of his studio ..." According to Albert Blankert "No other painting so flawlessly integrates naturalistic technique, brightly illuminated space, and a complexly integrated composition."〔A. Blankert (1978) Vermeer of Delft, p. 47-49. Oxford: Phaidon.〕
The painting is owned by the Austrian Republic and is on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
==Description==
The painting depicts an artist painting a female subject in his studio, by a window, with a large map of the Low countries on the wall behind. Vermeer signed the painting on the map, behind the model's neck, but did not date it. Most experts believe it was done between 1665/1668, but some suggest the work could have been created as late as 1670-1675. In 1663 Vermeer had been visited by Balthasar de Monconys, but had no painting to show. It was possibly done "in order to have an outstanding specimen of his art in his studio."〔(Vermeer and the Delft School, p. 396 )〕 Vermeer obviously liked the painting; he never sold it during his lifetime. It stands as a kind of summary and assessment of what has been done.〔S. Alpers, p. 122.〕〔(KHM on the "Art of Painting" )〕
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