Vermeer - Softcover

Nash, John

 
9781870248709: Vermeer

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128pages. in4. Broché.

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Johannes Vermeer is one of the most subtle artists who ever lived, and yet his pictures have achieved the recognition they deserve only in the twentieth century. Second only to Rembrandt among seventeenth century Dutch painters, he enjoyed nothing like the same fame in his own lifetime. The rediscovery of Vermeer is a story in itself, which John Nash unravels in a critical journey, showing how, by dint of comparisons, cross-references and intelligent guesswork, Vermeer's paintings can be made to yield some of the secrets. Eminently readable with all Vermeer's surviving paintings reproduced in full colour, this is an accessible and intelligent account of this important and popular artist.

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