For the final episode of Season Five, I am examining The Astronomer by Johannes Vermeer and how it represents not only the Dutch Golden Age of Art, but also the Scientific Revolution. To listen, please click here or download onto your favorite platform. Please rate, review, and subscribe!
The Astronomer by Johannes Vermeer
1668
Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
The Geographer by Joannes Vermeer
1668-69
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek by Jan Verkolje
1680
Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Possible Self Portrait of Vermeer
From the The Procuress, 1656
Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Detail of how a camera obscura works
from James Ayscough's A short account of the eye and nature of vision (1755)
Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronomer_(Vermeer)
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-astronomer/4QIC_w37FgG5KQ
http://www.essentialvermeer.com/catalogue/astronomer.html
http://www.essentialvermeer.com/cat_about/astronomer.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek
https://study.com/academy/lesson/how-science-shaped-historical-thinking-in-the-17th-century.html#:~:text=disciplines%2C%20including%20history.-,In%20the%2017th%20century%2C%20the%20term%20natural%20philosophy%20was%20used,the%20existence%20of%20scientific%20laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Vermeer
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/verm/hd_verm.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura
Gardner's Art through the Ages, 12th edition by Fred S. Kleiner