FILE: 08_Lady with a Lute_Vermeer.jpg

TITLE: PAINTING - Lady with a Lute - BAROQUE PERIOD IN HOLLAND

DESCRIPTION: by VERMEER. Category: GENRE (scenes of everyday life). Dutch didn't paint angels. They painted what they saw. VERMEER'S STYLE: quiet, lack of energetic movement. He only did about 35 paintings, and they all had the same corner of his house or a view from his house in them.