【华丽巴洛克-动感夸张戏剧化】绘画艺术7

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Of all Vermeer's paintings, it was probably this picture that he held in greatest esteem. It was the painting he used to show off his skills to customers. A customer three centuries after he died was none other than Adolf Hitler
         
       

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        ❤ HINTS:
        Delft
        Vermeer

         
        全文听写，英式拼法
An accepted way of attracting customer at the time was to allow possible buyers into the painter's studio.
It's very hard for us to believe but potential patrons would knock on the artist's door, go in and see him at the easel. Almost I think as a kind of way of proving to themselves that this was the generally thing.
The difficulty for the Delft artist without means was that he had to sell paintings to live, but he had to keep back some in his studio to advertise his skills. It's recorded that one summer's day in 1663 a rich French diplomat came knocking on Vermeer's door, hoping to buy. To the artist's shame, he had nothing to show him. He had to lead the French diplomat round to someone who had previously bought a couple of his paintings - a local baker.当时画家招揽客户的方式之一，就是让有潜力的买家参观画家，我们也许觉得难以置信。但当时有兴趣买画的人，可以敲敲画室的门，就登堂入室地参观。我想也是想要确定买到的是真迹吧。徳福特的贫穷画家，面临了一个难题，他必须卖画谋生，但又得放肌肤在画室里做广告。据载1663年夏天，一名富裕的法国外交家，来到维梅尔的画室希望能买一幅作品。维梅尔却困窘地发现，没有任何作品可以展示，于是只好带法国外交家到以前，跟他买画的面包师傅家看画。