The blue-dressed woman reading a letter

Johannes Vermeer (from 1632 to 1675) was one of the greatest painters in the Netherlands but had been forgotten as long as two centuries. Vermeer was born in 1632 in a small property owner family in Delft and died at the same place in 1675. Most of his works were custom theme paintings. 
There is always one or two characters in his paintings, usually are the women who are engaged in housework. The whole picture of his paintings is warm, comfortable and quiet and gives people a solemn sense. His works fully demonstrate that the Dutch citizens prefer to a clean environment and elegant and comfortable atmosphere. He also had an distinctive art style, his painting forms are strong, structures are delicate and the colors are bright and harmonious. 
He was good enough at represent the indoor light and spaciousness. The blue-dressed woman reading a letter is deemed to the most beautiful work of Vermeer’s and represents the excellent control abilities of him over colors, lights and perspective. The painter depicted a young woman concentrated on reading a letter and it reflects the ability to turn the ordinary daily life into a different kind of scene with strong and tense emotions of the painter. But the most tantalizing part of this work is that: the young woman is mostly reading a love letter but we don’t know who wrote the letter to her and what the letter about. And the most importantly, what makes the young woman so engrossed. Although the size of this work is small but it has rich and powerful performance. Ingenious balanced composition makes it seems more precise and elegant, and the aesthetic applications of lights create a soft and diffuse atmosphere. Vermeer’s excellent control ability of colors is represented vividly and incisively, the use of various shades of blue tonal let the audiences enjoy themselves so much as to forget to leave