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Article: VERMEER AND DE HOOCH AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY.(Vermeer and the Delft School)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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AFTER the outburst of trumpets at the Royal Academy's Genius of Rome we are invited to hear the dextrous, muted clavier-pieces of Vermeer and the Delft School at the National Gallery. The School of Delft, if it existed at all, was sustained mostly by visiting artists; but there are plenty of works by the longstanding residents, Vermeer and de Hooch. The exhibition is well put together. One cannot say the same of the heavyweight catalogue, expensive ([pound]36) for what it contains, half of which is prolegomena (including an inordinate tally of 169 pages by a curator at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, where the exhibition originated) and appendices. The catalogue is ...