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
Sublime stillness: Capturing nature’s moody splendorThe solitude of man and the bleak beauty of nature are prominent themes in the work ofCaspar David Friedrich(1774–1840), the great romantic painter
