Minneapolis Institute Of Arts will run an exhibition named 'The Night Sky in the Age of Vermeer: The Astronomer in Context', from Saturday, August 8, 2009 to Sunday, January 31, 2010, at Gallery 344.
This exhibition is scheduled to coincide with “The Louvre and the Masterpiece” and the important loan to the MIA of Vermeer’s Astronomer from Paris.
“The Night Sky” will bring visitors into the scientific and cultural world of the 17th-century astronomer through a focused examination of the prints, books, scientific instruments, and other objects that Vermeer depicted in his intriguing and breathtakingly beautiful painting.
The picture shows Andreas Cellarius Dutch, c. 1596–1665, Chart of Lunar Phases and Eclipses, Hand-colored engraving, From the Harmonia Macrocosmica, Amsterdam, 1660 (1708 edition), The Minnich Collection, The Ethel Van Derlip Fund P.14,544. -- www.artsmia.org
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