The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer offers a systematic overview of the artist's life and work that will be useful to specialists, students, and the general public. Its eleven essays include studies of the artist's development and approach to painting, women as a subject in Vermeer's work, the role of Catholicism in Vermeer's life and art, and the artist's reputation during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, among other topics. Collectively, these essays provide a balanced and enlightening examination of many different aspects of Vermeer's art.
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"This remarkably useful book is part of the rapidly proliferating Cambridge Companion series...I found it to be an excellent teaching text, and for other interested readers it offers a sound, nuanced introduction, not only to Vermeer but to many of the concerns currently of interest to scholars of seventeenth-century Dutch art...the writing flows with commmendable ease. This in itself is an achievement, particularly in an anthology, and is a credit to the authors and editor alike...That this book propels the reader back to the original paintings is a measure of its success." Historians of Netherlandish Art
"The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer provides a welcome selection of the most recent scholarship and methodological approaches toward Vermeer.... Franits has assembled a cohesive group of clearly written essays.... The first of Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.'s two contributions, 'Vermeer's Craft and Artistry,' includes a magnificent formal analysis of the Women in Blue Reading a Letter (Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum) that should be required reading for every art history student.... The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer will be of interest to many different types of readers, as was its intention, and it should easily find its place onto course syllabi as an informative reference source." Sixteenth Century Journal
"The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer provides a welcome selection of the most recent scholarship and methodological approaches toward Vermeer.... Franits has assembled a cohesive group of clearly written essays.... The first of Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.'s two contributions, 'Vermeer's Craft and Artistry,' includes a magnificent formal analysis of the Women in Blue Reading a Letter (Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum) that should be required reading for every art history student.... The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer will be of interest to many different types of readers, as was its intention, and it should easily find its place onto course syllabi as an informative reference source." Sixteenth Century Journal
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The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer offers a systematic overview of the artist's life and work that will be useful to specialists, students, and the general public. Its eleven essays include studies of the artist's development and approach to painting, women as a subject in Vermeer's work, the role of Catholicism in Vermeer's life and art, and the artist's reputation during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, among other topics. Collectively, these essays provide a balanced and enlightening examination of many different aspects of Vermeer's art.
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Vermeer's rightful place among the greatest seventeenth-century Dutch painters belies the fact that his paintings were to some extent forgotten and only occasionally associated with his name in the decades following his death up until the nineteenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roman Catholic, The Milkmaid, The Hague, Blue Reading, Lady Standing, The Music Lesson, Allegory of Faith, The Concert, The Glass of Wine, Maria Thins, Virgin Mary, Girl Reading, Johannes Vermeer, Detail of Plate, View of Delft, Woman Asleep, Catharina Bolnes, Leonard Bramer, Nieuwe Kerk, Pearl Earring, Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch Republic, New York, The Love Letter, Water Jug New!
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Vermeer's rightful place among the greatest seventeenth-century Dutch painters belies the fact that his paintings were to some extent forgotten and only occasionally associated with his name in the decades following his death up until the nineteenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roman Catholic, The Milkmaid, The Hague, Blue Reading, Lady Standing, The Music Lesson, Allegory of Faith, The Concert, The Glass of Wine, Maria Thins, Virgin Mary, Girl Reading, Johannes Vermeer, Detail of Plate, View of Delft, Woman Asleep, Catharina Bolnes, Leonard Bramer, Nieuwe Kerk, Pearl Earring, Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch Republic, New York, The Love Letter, Water Jug New!
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- Vermeer Studies (Studies in the History of Art Series) by Ivan Gaskell on 9 pages
- Johannes Vermeer by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. on 8 pages
- Vermeer and His Milieu by John Michael Montias in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Red Hat by John Bayley on page 180, and Back Matter
- Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland on page 180, and Back Matter
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- Tables of Knowledge: Descartes in Vermeer's Studio by Harriet Stone on 5 pages
- Love Letters: Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer by Peter C. Sutton on 4 pages
- Art and Architecture of the Seventeenth Century Art by Ann S. Harris in Back Matter
- "And Never Know the Joy": Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry (DQR Studies in Literature 36) by C.C. Barfoot (Ed.) on page 85
- The Creation of Art: New Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics by Berys Gaut on page 114
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