Focusing on the extraordinary Lacemaker from the Musee du Louvre, this beautiful book investigates the subtle and enigmatic paintings by Johannes Vermeer that celebrate the intimacy of the Dutch house
The subject of writing and receiving letters, which recurs frequently in the work of Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), is given dramatic tension in this masterful painting of two women in a mysterious mom
Veiled emotions: Vermeer’s women, their duties and unspoken dreamsThe 35 paintings that have come down to us from the hand ofJan Vermeer (1632–1675) place him beside Rembrandt and Frans Hals asone of
The late-Renaissance Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer captured men and women transfixed in quiet, meditative moments, using dramatic lighting and perspective to effect a moody and poetic ambience. Each
