The Astronomer ☶ Vermeer ☷ Canvas Size:12 x 13¼

The Astronomer ☶ Vermeer ☷ Canvas Size:12 x 13¼The Astronomer (1668) by Johannes Vermeer depicts an astronomer looking at a globe. It is closely paired with The Geographer, which used the same model, and canvas from the same bolt of material. The astronomer's profession is indicated by the celestial globe (by Jodocus Hondius) and a book on the table, the 1621 edition of Adriaan Metius's Institutiones Astronomicae Geographicae. Symbolically, the volume is open to Book III, a section advising the

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