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​ Johannes Vermeer Life and Style:

Very little is known about Johannes Vermeer. There has been speculation as of what is personal life and background were like, but there is no solid evidence of any observations being factual. What Art Historians believe is that he was born and raised in the city of Delft (which is a common setting in most of his paintings). Vermeer has been called "The Sphinx of Delft" because so little is known about him yet he is so famous. However we do know that he had two parents (Reijnier Janszoon and Digna Baltus) a wife (Catharina Bolnes) and fourteen children, though four of them died before they were baptized. His paintings mostly consist of simple day to day events, like washing dishes, playing piano, or glancing at a globe. The people he paints are not religious figures, rather just ordinary people that he had seen around Delft, performing ordinary tasks. His style is magnificent because it makes the captures the beauty that people fail to appreciate in the simple things we take for granted.

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