The astronomer
About this painting
- Year
- 2024
- Dimensions
- 80×60 cm
- Technique
- oil on canvas
- Cycle
- Vermeer's Windows
Description
Vermeer reread in the twenty-first century, a woman astronomer touching the page of a treatise, stained-glass light falling on cosmic documents. In a quiet study a woman in a red Renaissance dress rests her hand on an open book on an embroidered turquoise cloth beside a terrestrial globe; behind her a cabinet of books, astronomical diagrams, and a painting of a lunar eclipse on the wall.