Description |
176 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm |
Contents |
Vermeer's life -- A master in Delft -- Vermeer's financial difficulties -- Vermeer's work -- Vermeer's early work -- History painting -- The emergence of the Delft school -- Dutch interior scenes -- Vermeer's The Procuress and Girl Asleep at a Table -- Pieter de Hooch -- Vermeer's discovery of sunlight -- Vermeer's city views : The Little Street and the View of Delft -- Further refinement, and the influence of Frans van Mieris -- The 'three women' -- 'Companion of joy, balm for sorrow' -- The Art of Painting -- A crisis in style -- Vermeer's late style -- The culmination of Vermeer's late style -- Mannerism -- Vermeer's last years -- Vermeer and his public -- Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Theophile Thoré and appreciation in the nineteenth century -- Van Meegeren's forgeries of Vermeer -- Two questionable Vermeers |
Analysis |
Dutch paintings Vermeer, Jan - Critical studies |
Notes |
Includes index |
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Translation of the 2d ed. of Johannes Vermeer van Delft, 1632-1675 |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 173 |
Subject |
Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675.
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Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675 -- Catalogues raisonnés.
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Genre/Form |
Catalogues raisonnés.
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Author |
Blankert, Albert.
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LC no. |
79320193 |
ISBN |
0714818194 |
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