Vermeer, Johannes

Surveys the life and work of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Jan Vermeer; provides analyses of his masterpieces; discusses the historical and social context in which Vermeer painted; and includes over three hundred reproductions of his work.

Contains full-page color reproductions and details of twenty-three paintings by seventeenth-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, each with an art historical interpretation and discussion of provenance, and includes essays that explore Vermeer's life, techniques, themes, and career, as well as color plates of all his surviving paintings.