Focusing on the work itself and exploring Vermeer’s family life, the documentary traverses Vermeer’s conversion to Catholicism, his artistic contemporaries, and the wider world of the short-lived Dutch Republic. Images from Vermeer’s paintings have become instantly recognizable and part of the collective imagination. The film will be available to public broadcasting stations throughout the country in February 2018. ET on WETA TV 26, the flagship public broadcasting station in the nation’s capital. The 90-minute documentary premieres Friday, October 6 at 9 p.m. Johannes Vermeer, one of the most loved, treasured and well-known artists in the world today, is the subject of Vermeer, Beyond Time, a new feature documentary narrated by actor Steve Martin. French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Cottet adopts an imaginative and sensitive approach to his subject, examining how this painter from the small city of Delft, living and working in the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th Century, who died in penury and obscurity before being rediscovered some 200 years later, came to claim hearts and admiration throughout the world.
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