http://flyingfox.jonathanjanson.com/2008/10/25/for-the-eye-and-monitor/ Words from the Essential Vermeer.com Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:08:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://flyingfox.jonathanjanson.com/2008/10/25/for-the-eye-and-monitor/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Jonathan Janson Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:09:31 +0000 http://flyingfox.jonathanjanson.com/?p=18#comment-26 No photograph can capture the whole range of a strongly contrasted picture like the “Woman with a Pearl Necklace.” You can get the lights or the darks but never both. This image has sacrificed the darks. I am writing a post on just this subject. In the mean time, let me tell you that the lower section of the compositions is almost as satisfying as the upper one. No photograph can capture the whole range of a strongly contrasted picture like the “Woman with a Pearl Necklace.” You can get the lights or the darks but never both. This image has sacrificed the darks. I am writing a post on just this subject. In the mean time, let me tell you that the lower section of the compositions is almost as satisfying as the upper one.

]]> http://flyingfox.jonathanjanson.com/2008/10/25/for-the-eye-and-monitor/comment-page-1/#comment-25 ARech Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:37:11 +0000 http://flyingfox.jonathanjanson.com/?p=18#comment-25 The offer is generous, of course. But I am not quite satisfied with the light/dark-values of the 'Girl with the Pearl Necklace'. It seems too dark even in the left-side foreground, compared with prints from principle books (Vermeer-Catalogue 1995/96, Vermeer-Studies). I know, it's the most deeply shadowed part of the painting, but is the original really so dark, just in that area? I need a close observation of the large, almost 'enigmatic' China-vase on the table, to try and estimate its period of production and probable origin. I do hope to get some clues from the original. Anyway, I am glad now to have the hi-res image. AR The offer is generous, of course. But I am not quite satisfied with the light/dark-values of the ‘Girl with the Pearl Necklace’. It seems too dark even in the left-side foreground, compared with prints from principle books (Vermeer-Catalogue 1995/96, Vermeer-Studies). I know, it’s the most deeply shadowed part of the painting, but is the original really so dark, just in that area? I need a close observation of the large, almost ‘enigmatic’ China-vase on the table, to try and estimate its period of production and probable origin. I do hope to get some clues from the original. Anyway, I am glad now to have the hi-res image.
AR

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