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Vermeer special: the man, the show and an attribution debate

The Week in Art

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The Frick Retrospective

Ihir Vais-Lippa is one of the Conservatives who has led the research team. They have really gone into detail looking at Ihir from a technical standpoint. We found many indications of this first sketch that Vermeer applied and in a way that sometimes you wouldn't expect. For instance in a milkmaid he applied very free brush to give the first indication of light and dark areas. It's so different than what you see in those final paint images. And as every painting he uses something different or similar, it appears like almost an impact on how many paintings he would paint. In a sense though he couldn't repeat himself just because the subjects may be similar but

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