The Concert: Johannes Vermer (Frontline: Stolen)

[JohnJr]

Watching Frontline: Stolen tonight, and they say that Vermeer's The Concert may be the world's most valuable stolen painting. Other paintings that were stolen from The Gardner Museum in 1990 include...

5 Degas
1 Manet
1 Flinck
3 Rembrandts

... and The Concert by Johannes Vermeer

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vermeer/i/concert.jpg

I think it would be cool to post the paintings (or at least this one) and wonder, what the hell makes them so great?!

LOL

There is probably some great thing Vermeer did, some movement that he was part of, but I haven't the foggiest.

I start to get an idea of brilliance when I realize that in The Concert the young girl on the left is playing the piano, the girl on the right is singing, and the gentleman seated with his back towards us, is the audience. :)

Opine, or post the next stolen painting. ;)

-John

[JohnJr]

Could an op please fix my thread title from Vermer, to Vermeer, please.

Thank you.

-John

[JohnJr]

Hehehe.. the plot thickens. The picture on the right in the painting is Dirck van Baburen's The Procuress. :D

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/baburen/procuress.jpg

Mothers, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. :)

-John

[JohnJr]

Whose home is it? I had assumed the girls, but is it the gentleman's?

If the girls, what does that say?

-John