Johannes Vermeer
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Sep 11, 2026
Simon WhistlerHOST
Nevertheless, some of the greatest paintings of the second millennium were created during the 17th century, during the Dutch Golden Age.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Painters like Vermeer were creating hyper-realistic masterpieces.
Simon WhistlerHOST
But how did they do this without access to colours? Where did they get the colours from? Well, they had access to colors, and they came from all around the world, from really strange places and from really strange things.
Simon WhistlerHOST
And they would come here, to Dakat, where they would go in a windmill and they'd be ground up and turned into pigments.
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Piet KempenaarGUEST
The problem with all those painters was, if you're being a famous artist, you've got a manager behind you.
Piet KempenaarGUEST
Sure.
Piet KempenaarGUEST
And that was the problem with people like Rembrandt or Johannes Vermeer.
Piet KempenaarGUEST
They had no manager.
Steve StocktonHOST
They did the same to a portrait of a lady and a gentleman.
Steve StocktonHOST
Then they walked over to a masterpiece by Johannes Vermeer called The Concert.
Steve StocktonHOST
There are only 34 Vermeers left in the whole world, friend.
Steve StocktonHOST
They sliced it out, rolling it up like a poster of some forgotten rock band.
Steve StocktonHOST
They took sketches by Degas, a landscape by Flinck, and an ancient Chinese beaker.
Steve StocktonHOST
So, the thieves stole the sun, only to realize they could never let it shine.
Steve StocktonHOST
I think about those paintings sometimes when the house gets quiet.
Steve StocktonHOST
I think about Rembrandt's furious storm and Vermeer's beautiful, silent concert.
Scott CrawfordGUEST
As in many cases elsewhere in Three Tribes, we get a nuanced view of the Dutch.
Scott CrawfordGUEST
And speaking of great Dutch artists, the book also has Jan mention the young Vermeer as if he were studying with Fabritius.
Scott CrawfordGUEST
That is possible, but not established.
John RossHOST
Vermeer, hmm.
John RossHOST
Yeah, about a dozen years later, he's painting that magnificent girl with a pearl earring.
John RossHOST
Absolutely exquisite.
John TuomeyGUEST
So the thought of it wearing a, it wearing a jacket, you know, it wearing a protective garment, um, seemed like a nice analogy.
John TuomeyGUEST
And, and I don't know, I was looking at paintings by Vermeer in the Nat- Irish National Gallery where, where the...
John TuomeyGUEST
You're thinking about the space between the sleeve and the body, [laughs] you know, um, the in-between space, if you like.
John TuomeyGUEST
I was looking at exhibition we saw at the V&A that had Balenciaga, um, costumes that-- Where Balenciaga was sort of hanging his garments from the shoulder dropped to the floor, which reminded me of, um, clerical robes that, you know, from my early days as an altar boy, [laughs] as a school boy.
Dan GelernterHOST
I will just say that this is a very striking painting.
Josh GelernterHOST
And the carpet is very Vermeer-ish.
Dan GelernterHOST
Yes, that is an excellent point.
Dan GelernterHOST
The carpet is rendered in great Vermeer style.
Dan GelernterHOST
This really is painting, I think occasionally artists who aren't really great rise to a level of greatness.
Dan GelernterHOST
So, you know, the one hit wonders as it were.
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Dan GelernterHOST
peculiar.
Dan GelernterHOST
It's possible they don't even care that much, but it would be wonderful to see.
Lauren TagliaferroHOST
... uh, throughout, like, in different portraits or different scenes.
Lauren TagliaferroHOST
And we're like, "Oh, yeah, he must have had that in his, like his retinue, basically, um, and liked to paint it because it had a good sheen or, or whatever." Um, Vermeer, I talked about Vermeer, I think, in an earlier episode, but, uh, Vermeer reused the same carpet and paintings and, like, props, basically, over and over and over again.
Lauren TagliaferroHOST
So you see the same, like, oriental rug in different contexts and the same, um- ... uh, viola in different contexts and paintings on the walls.
Lauren TagliaferroHOST
He kind of like k- keeps those, and those, those were like props that he would use.
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Question 47.
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Who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring? Johannes Vermeer.
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Question 48.
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Which composer is called the father of the symphony? Joseph Haydn.
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Question 47.
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Who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring? Johannes Vermeer.
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Question 48.
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Which composer is called the father of the symphony? Joseph Haydn.
Tim MillerHOST
And the first thing to know about both of these is that when you see them in person, they're a lot smaller, at least they were smaller than I was expecting them to be.
Tim MillerHOST
I have even more respect for what Vermeer was able to do, especially with the milkmaid and the glittering pieces of bread and the clothes of the milkmaid and her forehead and the whole scene of it, that he was able to do this in such a small space.
Tim MillerHOST
And I remember...
Tim MillerHOST
We were going there specifically to see those things, first of all, and we came up the steps and around a corner and I saw it just a little way off in a further gallery.
Tim MillerHOST
And you can just count the people and imagine their lives going back and back and back to the vanishing point.
Tim MillerHOST
And there are buildings and little scenes going on on the sides as well.
Tim MillerHOST
And so the milkmaid, the Vermeer stuff and the Rembrandts, I knew those were there.
Tim MillerHOST
Claude Lorrain and Evercamp, I wasn't expecting to see them.
Steve StocktonHOST
They did the same to a portrait of a lady and a gentleman.
Steve StocktonHOST
Then they walked over to a masterpiece by Johannes Vermeer called The Concert.
Steve StocktonHOST
There are only thirty-four Vermeers left in the whole world, friend.
Steve StocktonHOST
They sliced it out, rolling it up like a poster of some forgotten rock band.
Steve StocktonHOST
They took sketches by Degas, a landscape by Flinck, and an ancient Chinese beaker.
Steve StocktonHOST
So the thieves stole the sun, only to realize they could never let it shine.
Steve StocktonHOST
I think about those paintings sometimes when the house gets quiet.
Steve StocktonHOST
I think about Rembrandt’s furious storm and Vermeer’s beautiful, silent concert.
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