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Posted: 24 Jul 2023

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‘Cavalier and Young Woman,’

‘Cavalier and Young Woman,’
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Besides his careful rendering of optical effects, another obsession becomed apparent in Vermeer’s later works: the depiction of maps and globes. A map is central to his composition in ‘Cavalier and Young Woman,’ from about 1657. In the 1660 and early 1670s, Vermeer returned to this motif no fewer than nine times in all, four times in his final nine pictures. He did seem to have, as a nineteenth-century commentator noted, a “mania for maps.”

. . . . Map production throughout the world has become centered in Amsterdam in the 1590s, in part because Holland’s position as a seafaring power required the development of accurate maps, and also because the change from woodcut to copperplate engraving as the method for mapmaking benefitted artisans in the Netherlands, who were skilled metalworkers. ~ Page 217

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