|
Frequently Bought Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world by Timothy Brook |
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama |
The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art) by Wayne E. Franits |
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama |
by Mariƫt Westermann
|
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links(What is this?) |
Product Description
Review
(Lawrence Gowing The [London] Times Literary Supplement )
What if 454 documents related to Vermeer and his family were lying, long undisturbed, in the archives of no fewer than 17 Dutch and Belgian cities? And what if someone were to transcribe and translate every one of them? Wouldn't we want to know all about it? Of course we would, and now that we have John Michael Montias' new book, Vermeer and His Milieu, we can see how right we are.... As detective work, and as a portrait of an era, [this book] ranks high.
(New York Times Book Review )
Product Description
This book is not only a fascinating biography of one of the greatest painters of the seventeenth century but also a social history of the colorful extended family to which he belonged and of the town life of the period. It explores a series of distinct worlds: Delft's Small-Cattle Market, where Vermeer's paternal family settled early in the century; the milieu of shady businessmen in Amsterdam that recruited Vermeer's grandfather to counterfeit coins; the artists, military contractors, and Protestant burghers who frequented the inn of Vermeer's father in Delft's Great Market Square; and the quiet, distinguished "Papists Corner" in which Vermeer, after marrying into a high-born Catholic family, retired to practice his art, while retaining ties with wealthy Protestant patrons. The relationship of Vermeer to his principal patron is one of many original discoveries in the book.
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
 |
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > History of Art & Architecture > By Chronology > Baroque to Neo-Classicism: 1600-1800 > Bestsellers
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > History of Art & Architecture > By Chronology > Renaissance to Mannerism: 1400-1600 > Bestsellers
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Styles & Movements > Baroque > Architecture
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Styles & Movements > Baroque > Bestsellers
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Styles & Movements > Baroque > Painting
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Styles & Movements > Renaissance > Architecture
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Styles & Movements > Renaissance > Bestsellers
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Styles & Movements > Renaissance > Painting
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Styles & Movements > Rococo > Architecture
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Styles & Movements > Rococo > Bestsellers
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Styles & Movements > Rococo > Painting
- Books > Biography > Artists, Architects & Photographers > Artists
- Books > Biography > Historical > Social & Urban History
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
Your Recent History
(What's this?)|
After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. |
