요하네스 페르메이르 (얀 베르메르, 1632-1675)

요하네스 페르메이르는 바로크 시대에 활동했던 네덜란드출신 화가이다. 그는 네덜란드가 정치적, 경제적, 문화적으로 전성기를 구가하던 네덜란드의 '황금 시대'에 활동했던 화가였다. 델프트에서 살면서 작품활동을 했기 때문에,‘델프트의 페르메이르’라고 부르기도 한다. 역사소설 《진주 귀고리 소녀》와 동명영화의 소재가 된 인물이기도 하다.

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)

Johannes Vermeer, in original Dutch Jan Vermeer van Delft, was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. Nonetheless, he produced relatively few paintings and evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, and frequently used very expensive pigments. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.