Vermeer

Sandra Forty

• Publisher: Taj Books International
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9781844062096
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: European Art

Jan Vermeer is acknowledged as one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Yet in his lifetime he was largely unregarded and struggled to make a living for himself and his family. He lived and worked all his life in the prosperous Dutch town of Delft painting perfectly beautiful pictures of the inhabitants and their homes. Vermeer's technique was faultlessly meticulous and consequently painstakingly slow. Fewer than forty of his paintings have survived, in fact he probably did not paint any more. Obscure within his own lifetime it wasn't until two hundred years after his death that his true worth was recognized and his wonderful works were shown to the world. This book shows all of his paintings and explains some of the techniques and meanings of these apparently innocent paintings of Dutch small town life.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Book Begins . . .
• Johannes Vermeer 1632 - 75
• Saint Praxedis
• Christ In The House of Mary and Martha
• Diana With Her Companions
• The Procuress
• Girl Reading A letter at an Open Window
• A Girl Asleep
• The Little Street
• Officer and Laughing Girl
• The Milkmaid
• The Glass of Wine
• The Girl with Wineglass
• View of Delft
• Girl Interrupted At Her Music
• Woman In Blue Reading A Letter
• The Music Lesson
• Woman With A Lute
• Woman Holding A Balance
• Woman With A Pearl Necklace
• Young Woman With A Water Pitcher
• Girl With A Pearl Earring
• A Lady Writing
• The Concert
• Girl With The Red Hat
• Allegory of Painting
• Portrait of a Young Woman
• Mistress and Maid
• The Astronomer
• The Geographer
• The Love Letter
• The Lacemaker
• Lady Writing A Letter With Her Maid
• Allegory of Faith
• The Guitar Player
• A Young Woman Standing At A Virginal
• A Young Woman Seated At A Virginal
• Index
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