Un Vermeer a Palazzo Barberini. Donna in blu che legge una lettera

Vermeer’s Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, painted around 1663–64, on rare loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

No Italian collection owns a Vermeer, and just over thirty of his paintings are known. The show runs from the Sala Ovale to the Sala Paesaggi, where the painting hangs in a space of its own for close looking.

Digital displays cover Vermeer’s methods, the history of the picture, seventeenth-century Delft and the Rijksmuseum’s 2010 restoration, which removed old varnish and brought back the strength of the blues. The curators are Thomas Clement Salomon and Paola Nicita.

Full details at barberinicorsini.org