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The Astronomer
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Artist : Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675)
Title : The Astronomer
Object type: painting
Genre : genre art
Year : c. 1668
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 51 cm × 45 cm (20 in × 18 in)
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris
Painting of scientists were a favorite topic in 17th-century Dutch painting and Vermeer's oeuvre includes both this astronomer and the slightly later The Geographer. Both are believed to portray the same man, possibly Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. A 2017 examination shows that the canvas for the two works came from the same bolt of material, confirming their close relationship.
The astronomer's profession is shown by the celestial globe and the book on the table, the 1621 edition of Adriaan Metius's Institutions' Astronomical Geographical. Symbolically, the volume is open to Book III, a section suggesting the astronomer to seek "inspiration from God" and the painting on the wall appear the Finding of Moses—Moses may represent knowledge and science.
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Abbe, Mary (15 October 2009). "Louvre show at MIA has Hitler's favorite painting". Star Tribune. Minneapolis.
Lottman, Herbert R (1995). Return of the Rothschilds: the great banking dynasty through two turbulent centuries. London: Tauris.
van Berkel, Klaas (1996). "Vermeer and the Representation of Science". The Scholarly World of Vermeer