[ASA Shipping] Pre-order: Official Guidebook for the "Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring" Exhibition (Release Date: June 5, 2026)【ASA配送】予約販売 フェルメール 真珠の耳飾りの少女展 公式ガイドブック(発売日:2026年6月5日)
AERA Art Collection
Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring Exhibition—Official Guidebook
A Masterpiece of 17th-Century Dutch Painting Returns to Japan
Edited by Asahi Shimbun Publications
ISBN: 9784022521453
Price: 2,068 yen (tax included)
Release Date: June 5, 2026
A4 format, softcover, 96 pages
Vermeer’s masterpiece *Girl with a Pearl Earring*, representing 17th-century Dutch art, is coming to Japan! (August 21–September 27, 2026, Osaka Nakanoshima Museum of Art). Read this 96-page, full-color “Official Guidebook” to enjoy this miraculous art exhibition ten times more!
CONTENTS
▽ Opening Interview: Flutist Cocomi
Please tell us some classical pieces that go well with *Girl with a Pearl Earring*!
▽ In-Depth Analysis of the Visiting Work *Girl with a Pearl Earring*
Could this be its final visit to Japan!? A miraculous 38-day window to meet the girl
Highlight 1: What is the girl looking at?
Highlight 2: What if her lips were closed?
Highlight 3: A painting that couldn’t have been created with the instruction “Say cheese!”
Highlight 4: Examining the depiction of light
Charm ⑤ “Divine Light” and “Natural Light”
Charm ⑥ Layering Greens to Create the Background
▽ In-Depth Analysis of the Visiting Work *Diana and the Nymphs*
No Nudes! Vermeer’s Mythological Paintings
▽ Unfortunately Not Coming to Japan! *View of Delft* in Full Scale!
▽ The Difference in Light Between Vermeer and Monet
▽ Special Contribution: Honobu Yonezawa, “The Girl Nobody Knows”
▽“Dutch History” You’ll Never Forget Once You Read It, Written by Former Public High School Teacher and YouTuber Keiichi Yamazaki
▽What Was 17th-Century Holland Like, Where Vermeer Lived?
▽Delft: A Small Medieval Town Protected by City Walls
▽Interview with Tomoe Shinohara
A Masterpiece That Captures a Fleeting Moment of Beauty for Eternity
A Dialogue with Vermeer’s *Girl with a Pearl Earring*
▽ The Mysterious 43-Year Life of Vermeer
Supervised by Junko Aono (Professor, Faculty of Letters, Keio University)
Illustrations by Ai Noda
・Artistic Apprenticeship and His Father’s Death
・A Great Love Affair and a Marriage Across Social Classes
・A Large Family of 14 Children
・Competition with Other Painters
・Extremely Sparse Output
・A Death Too Soon
▽ Vermeer Artwork Gallery
▽ Commentary on the Vermeer Artwork Gallery by Akiko Sato
▽ A Brief Overview of Western Art History
▽ Size Comparison of 37 Vermeer Works
▽ A Special Focus on Vermeer
Yasei Bakudan Kuki! / Junko Toyoda /
KAILENE MATSUZAKI / Masatsugu Ono
▽ Professor Norihiro Miyashita, Exhibition Curator, Explains
17th-Century Dutch Civic Life and Painting
▽The Mauritshuis Museum: Former Private Residence of Dutch Governor Johan Maurits
▽Minako Saito’s Reading Guide
▽Exhibition Information
▽Works to Watch by Tomoko Ogawa, Curator at the Osaka Nakanoshima Museum of Art, During Her Visit to Japan! ▽Recommended by Curator Tomoko Ogawa! Culinary Stops Near the Art Exhibition
AERA Art Collection
フェルメール 真珠の耳飾りの少女展 公式ガイドブック
17世紀オランダ絵画の名品、奇跡の再来日
朝日新聞出版 編著
ISBN:9784022521453
定価:2068円(税込)
発売日:2026年6月5日
A4判並製 96ページ
17世紀オランダの美術を代表する画家・フェルメールの名作《真珠の耳飾りの少女》の来日が決定した!(2026年8月21日~9月27日、大阪中之島美術館)。オールカラー96ページ「公式ガイドブック」を読めば、この奇跡的な美術展がさらに10倍楽しめます!
CONTENTS
▽巻頭インタビュー、フルート奏者Cocomi
《真珠の耳飾りの少女》に似合うクラシック曲を教えてください!
▽来日作品《真珠の耳飾りの少女》徹底解説
これが最後の来日!? 少女と会える奇跡の38日間
魅力①少女は何を見つめている?
魅力②もしも彼女の唇が閉じていたとしたら?
魅力③「はい、ポーズ!」という指示では描けない絵
魅力④光の表現を検証
魅力⑤「神の光」と「自然の光」
魅力⑥ 緑を重ねて背景を表現
▽来日作品《ディアナとニンフたち》徹底解説
裸体なし! フェルメールの神話画
▽惜しくも来日しない!《デルフトの眺望》原寸大!
▽フェルメールとモネの光の違い
▽特別寄稿 米澤穂信「誰も知らない少女」
▽元公立高校教師・YouTuber山﨑圭一が書いた一度読んだら絶対忘れない「オランダの歴史」
▽フェルメールが生きた17世紀オランダとは?
▽城壁に守られていた中世の小さな町・デルフト
▽インタビュー、篠原ともえ
一瞬の美しい気配を、永遠にとどめた名画
フェルメール《真珠の耳飾りの少女》との対話
▽謎多きフェルメール43年の人生
監修・青野純子(慶應義塾大学文学部教授)
イラスト・野田あい
・画家修行と父の死
・大恋愛と格差婚
・14人の子だくさん
・画家たちとの競争
・超寡作
・早すぎる死
▽フェルメール作品ギャラリー
▽フェルメール作品ギャラリー解説・佐藤晃子
▽ざっくり西洋美術史解説
▽フェルメール37作品大きさ比べ
▽偏愛フェルメール鑑賞
野生爆弾 くっきー!/豊田順子/
KAILENE MATSUZAKI/小野正嗣
▽展覧会監修、宮下規久朗教授が教える
17世紀オランダの市民生活と絵画
▽オランダの総督ヨーハン・マウリッツの元私邸、マウリッツハイス美術館
▽斎藤美奈子の読書案内
▽展覧会情報
▽大阪中之島美術館担当学芸員、小川知子さん来日作品ここに注目!▽小川知子学芸員がおすすめ! 美術展寄り道グルメ
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