Imagine the Interior - a Game

Unleash your full potential for creativity. Put a sketch pad and pencil on your table.

Choose one of the Vermeer rooms and read the text description of each item.

First make a quick pencil sketch and only then click on the object to see how your phantasy and our idea of Vermeer's reality are inches or miles apart.

Start off by identifying these objects (correct answers below):

The answers are listed below.

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Detail of a painting showing painters studio gear, a bundle of paint brushes, an open oil tin for cleaning brushes by dipping them in for a longer time. The paint then is released from the brush hairs and slowly sinks to the bottom. The hanging bottles may contain a siccative, that is a drying agent.

The ropes are there to string a canvas taut within a rectangular wooden frame. Painting by Cornelis Gijsbrechts, coll. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.

Research copyright by art historian Kees Kaldenbach. Email kalden@xs4all.nl Back to the Welcome page: click Welcome. Thanks to industrial engineer and web-wizard ir. Allan Kuiper for his wonderful navigator and 3D movies.

Launched December, 2002. Update September 11, 2008.