Tom Anderson

Jan 20, 2025 | dailyartmagazine.com | Edoardo Cesarino |Nikolina Konjevod |Errika Gerakiti |Tom Anderson

Painting min Read Baroque Caravaggio left an indelible mark on many artists who came after him, as well as his own contemporaries. With its unique use of light and the focus on characters, the Caravaggio style—or Caravaggism—took Europe by storm. The Caravaggisti were an international movement that spread across the continent, each taking inspiration from the style of Caravaggio and making it their own.

Dec 15, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Tom Anderson

Baroque Many of the paintings by Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632–1675) focus on the theme of love. Some of them involve music, letters, or a glass of wine, but in so many cases the stories depicted in the paintings are fundamentally about love. In what would be our good fortune, Vermeer ended his artistic career with these two pendant paintings. They tell us about his thoughts about two different sorts of love—one that he seems to approve of, the other, not so much.

Dec 8, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Tom Anderson |Errika Gerakiti |Anna Ingram |Bec Brownstone

Painting min Read Any biography of Carel Fabritius (Dutch, 1622–1654) is necessarily short; there simply is not much known about him. He was born in Beemster, a small village in a muddy mess of a polder in the north of Holland. As a young man, he studied with Rembrandt in Amsterdam, did his first paintings in the master’s studio, moved back to Beemster for a while, and eventually relocated to Delft.

Nov 28, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Tom Anderson |Errika Gerakiti |Anna Ingram |Bec Brownstone

Painting min Read As a scientist, I have always been attracted to images of science in works of art—whether a portrait of Newton, a depiction of Galileo using his telescope, or an alchemist plying his mysterious craft. Two paintings by Johannes Vermeer show scientists at the Eureka moment of discovery—that moment when observations transform into an epiphany. That moment can be seen in The Astronomer, as the scientist moves his index finger out of the way to focus on a detail on the globe.

Nov 8, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Tom Anderson

It is impossible to name the “best” of Johannes Vermeer’s paintings, or even to get consensus on a favorite. There are too many great ones to choose from. But the iconic View of Delft is always on such lists. Perhaps the most well-known cityscape in art history, the painting shows a calm morning view of Delft—the town where Vermeer was born, where he died, and where he spent virtually all of his life. How well do you think you know this painting?