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Full of revelations and rich analyses of his paintings, this sweeping biography of Johannes Vermeer dives into the life and vibrant work of one of the greatest painters from the Dutch Golden Age.
This revelatory biography persuasively addresses the two great unresolved questions about Vermeer: why did he paint his pictures, and what do they mean?
One spring day in 1683, a notary’s clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled upon one of the wonders of the seventeenth-century world: twenty paintings by Johannes Vermeer. Rather than dispel the mysteries of Vermeer’s life, this discovery merely gave rise to more questions: How had this one Dutch...
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