Abstract
In this study, the scenes of everyday life in Jan Vermeer's works were investigated, the main lines of the Baroque period painting art, which was shaped and developed in the light of the events that took place in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the Baroque period Dutch painting art was examined. in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the sectarian wars between Catholicism and Protestantism, events such as the Thirty Years' War, and the changes in the economic field have affected people's living conditions and perspectives, and as a result of this situation, the approach to art has changed. It has been seen that the events experienced by the societies and the changes in their lives are reflected in the artistic field, the level of prosperity developed in the Dutch society, the effect of religious events have brought about changes in the subjects covered in the paintings, and they are divided into genres such as portrait, still life and genre. It showed itself in the works of Frans Hals, where portraiture had a very important place in Dutch painting, and effective examples of the realistic approach were given in still life paintings in the period when non-religious subjects were increasingly taking place. As a master of the genre of genre painting, Jan Vermeer, reflecting the traces of daily life with the place descriptions he frequently included in his paintings, was ahead of his contemporary painters in terms of both composition and use of color. This type of painting, which is considered within the scope of the works of Jan Vermeer, one of the important representatives of the genre painting seen in the Dutch painting art of the Baroque period, constitutes the purpose of working with the artist's understanding of art and his works, while technical analysis and work analysis method were applied in the study. In the study, which deals with the Baroque period and Dutch painting, which was discussed from the end of the sixteenth century to the beginning of the seventeenth century, the works of the artist were examined based on the period in which Jan Vermeer lived, and it was concluded that he had the typical features of the genre painting in which the traces of daily life took place in his works.