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A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature intera
The Geographer (1668–69), by Johannes Vermeer
The World showing the League of Nations, 1929
The Geographer
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The Geographer is a painting created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in 1668–1669, and is now in the collection of the Städel museum in Frankfurt, Germany. It is closely related to Vermeer's The Astr
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…state, and federal government agencies as well as in the private sector by environmental and engineering firms. The paintings by Johannes Vermeer titled The Geographer and The Astronomer are both thought to represent the growing influence and rise in prominence of scientific enquiry in Europe at the time of their…
Johannes Vermeer The Geographer Google Art Project
Vermeer's The Astronomer has been considered a pendant to The Geographer
Faust depicted in an etching by Rembrandt (c. 1650). Faust, also a scholar, is depicted in the same pose as The Geographer, although facing in roughly the opposite direction.
Vermeer's possible model, Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek, painted two decades later by Jan Verkolje