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Collection of artists painting and history. ... Read more

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A postcard book containing 32 different cards from this much loved and popular Dutch painter. Collected among the full colour images are such crowd pleasers as The Girl with the Pearl Earring, The Milkmaid and The Little Street. ... Read more

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SynopsisJohannes Vermeer is the poetic soul of Dutch art and one of the great vanishing acts in art history. With his death in 1675 and the dispersal of his paintings, Vermeer's artistic and personal identities were virtually eclipsed. But he was rediscovered in the late 19th century and quickly became known as one of the European masters.Did you know that:Vermeer paid his rent by giving paintings to his landlord?Fewer than 40 paintings are attributed to Vermeer?The formality of Vermeer's images masks a deeper, symbolic meaning?Some critics still argue that Vermeer's possible use of camera obscura -- the "first camera" -- makes him more of a copyist than a truly original artist? 55 illustrations, including 48 plates in full color BiographyChristopher Sweet is the author of books on art and pop culture. He lives in New York City. ... Read more

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Mariet Westermann analyses Vermeer's work and his place in the history of art on the basis of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum's four paintings, which span the range of his production from early to late, from cityscape to genre, from domestic chores to refined living. ... Read more

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A Celebration of Vermeer
Mariet Westermann writes elegantly and with wisdom about this poetic Dutch Master. As a collaborator with Alejandro Vergara on his Vermeer and the Dutch Interior, the beautiful catolog for this show at The Prado in 2003, she wrote "Vermeer and the Interior Imagination," one of the most insightful essays about the artist penned over the last 30 years. In the present work, she focusses upon the four Vermeers now lodged in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)--the Kitchen Maid, the Little Street, the Love Letter, and the Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, four of the most sublime works in Vermeer's canon. Interspersed with the text for illustrative, comparative purposes are high quality reproductions of other paintings, many by Vermeer himself, including the best reproduction I have seen of Vermeer's indelible Art of Painting.

Although Westermann uncovers no new ground, she does provide a wider scholarly forum for the compelling research by the London architect, Philip Steadman (do read his Vermeer's Camera) who has demonstrated not only Vermeer's use of the camera obscura but also has built a convincing case for the location of the Little Street (behind the Mechelin, the family inn in Delft). She also captures Vermeer's interest in the philosophy of perception so prevalent in the intellectual milieu of Vermeer's compass, as well as the early scientific efforts (particularly in the nascent field of optics) that accompanied speculation about perception.

Westermann occasionally makes claims she cannot substantiate, such as vouching for Vermeer's actual conversion to the Roman Catholic faith, and suffers a minor lapse by ignoring Vermeer's Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid, a painting in the love letter tradition Vermeer likely made after 1670, a time when Westerman states that the theme "may have been exhausted for ambitious modern painting." She also missed an excellent opportunity to expand on her earlier writings about the importance to Vermeer's art of a concept the Dutch called "houding," a theoretical precept by which painters of Vermeer's era sought to demonstrate their mastery by blending abstract, almost musically harmonious perspective design with convincing illusions of images in space to fool the eye and engage the viewer.

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) should be appreciated by scholars and neophytes alike, providing as it does so much relevant information about this complex artist with such beauty in highly accessible fashion. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, John Locke, Baruch Spinoza, Johannes Vermeer, Christopher Wren, Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy, Henry Compton, Giovanni Battista Vitali, Francis Kirkman, John Proctor, William Yardley, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Samuel Von Pufendorf, George Ravenscroft, Thomas Firmin, John Paterson, Anthony Wood, Tylman Van Gameren, Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, Antoine Nompar de Caumont, Duke of Lauzun, Phetracha, Henry Stubbe, Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis, Esprit Fléchier, Jeremias Van Rensselaer, Edward Hungerford, William Fulman, Adriaan Koerbagh, Armand-Charles de La Porte de La Meilleraye, Cyril Wyche, Comte de Grignan, Jean Mabillon, Henry Pollexfen, Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Maria Leopoldine of Austria, John Houblon, Matthias Petersen, Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 4th Baronet, John West, Thomas Paine, William Hedges, Adam Frans Van Der Meulen, Johann Georg Graevius, Joseph Keble, Gilbert Ironside the Younger, Erik Benzelius the Elder, George Durant, Louis Bourdaloue, Étienne Pavillon, Louise Boyer, Edward Fowler, Wang Hui, Nicholas Leke, 4th Earl of Scarsdale, Étienne le Camus, Jean Gallois, Bartolomeo Biscaino, Heino Heinrich Graf Von Flemming, Antoine Massoulié, Giacomo Alboresi, Egoku Domyo, Feodosia Morozova, Jacques Pradon, Marcjan Aleksander Ogiński, Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, Nicholas Chamberlaine, Francis Mezger, Lancelot Addison, Antoine Benoist, Michael I Apafi, Valentine Hollingsworth, Enno Louis, Prince of Ostfriesland, Hezekiah Burton, Georg Caspar Wecker, Timothy Halton, Juriaen Van Streeck, Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton, Henry Chauncy, Giovanni Battista Merano, Johann Friedrich Böckelmann, Philip Balde, Jan Wijnants, Phillipus Baldeus, Wu Li, John Temple, Enkū, Tymofiy Khmelnytsky, François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais, Wang ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3408 ... Read more

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Chapters: Johannes Vermeer, Jan Van Goyen, Hendrick Avercamp, Frans Hals, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Aelbert Cuyp, Paulus Potter, Willem Drost, Dutch Golden Age Painting, Rembrandt, Arnold Houbraken, Cornelis Ketel, Pieter de Hooch, Adriaen Van Ostade, Gabriel Metsu, Wouter Crabeth Ii, Hercules Seghers, Bentvueghels, Frans Post, Gerard de Lairesse, Gerrit Dou, Jürgen Ovens, Bamboccianti, Bartholomeus Van Der Helst, Johannes Lingelbach, Cornelis Janssens Van Ceulen, Judith Leyster, Peter Lely, Frans Van Mieris the Elder, Leonaert Bramer, Meindert Hobbema, Gerard Van Honthorst, Vincent Van Der Vinne, Jacob Van Campen, Jacob Isaakszoon Van Ruisdael, Allaert Van Everdingen, Joachim Von Sandrart, Willem Van de Velde the Elder, Jan Van Der Heyden, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Dirck Van Baburen, Nicolaes Maes, Hendrick Ter Brugghen, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Govert Flinck, Jan de Baen, Aert Van Der Neer, Jan Steen, Hendrik Gerritsz Pot, Carel Fabritius, Hendrik Goltzius, Gerard Ter Borch, Isaac Van Ostade, Melchior D'hondecoeter, Eglon Van Der Neer, Jan Moninckx, Pieter Codde, Ferdinand Bol, Jan Asselijn, Confrerie Pictura, Huchtenburg, Otto Van Veen, Jan Miense Molenaer, Samuel Dirksz Van Hoogstraten, Herman Van Swanevelt, Adriaen Coorte, Caspar Netscher, Anna Maria Van Schurman, Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy, Pieter Van Laer, Roelant Savery, Cornelis Van Haarlem, Jacob Adriaensz Backer, Adriaen Van de Venne, Michiel Jansz. Van Mierevelt, Peter Danckerts de Rij, Willem Kalf, Jacob Pynas, Philips Wouwerman, Willem Van de Velde the Younger, Emanuel de Witte, Johannes Vingboons, Jan Albertsz Rotius, Jacob Van Loo, Jan Griffier, Cornelis Huysmans, Thomas de Keyser, Jan Van Huysum, Jan Lievens, Gerbrand Van Den Eeckhout, Jan Frans Van Douven, Godfried Schalcken, Karel Dujardin, Abraham Bloemaert, Adriaen Brouwer, Matthias Stom, Adriaen Van de Velde, Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, Balthasar Van Der Ast, Ludolf Bakhuizen, Jan Baptist Weenix, Gerrit Van U...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3907977 ... Read more