Huge art show questions legend of Vermeer the lone genius
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A new blockbuster Vermeer exhibition which opens on Wednesday aims to smash the myth that the Dutch master was a solitary genius who worked alone at home cut off from the world.
The Louvre in Paris has gathered a third of the 17th-century painter’s canvasses for the show — the most ever shown in one place since his death — where they will hang alongside nearly 60 paintings by his friends, rivals and contemporaries.
“We wanted to do away with the stereotype of Vermeer as ‘the Sphinx of Delft’,” said Blaise Ducos, who is in charge of the museum’s vast collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings.