Exploring the World Through Art: The Geographer by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer

The Geographer, like many of Johannes Vermeer's works, relies on natural light to illuminate the scene, in this case pouring through the window to the subject's left. The painting shows the Geographer surrounded by the tools of his trade, maps, a globe, books. He is holding a drawing tool while he leans over a map. But his attention is only partly focused on his work. What is he thinking of? Perhaps it is of faraway places that European explorers were voyaging to, partly aided by the maps he is working on.
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