A sumptuous new look for Tracy Chevalier's bestselling novel.

This series of tales revolves around an imaginary painting by Vermeer. Each tale reflects the impact the painting has on the the people around it whose lives it either illuminates or darkens.

Petra and Calder live in a neighbourhood where strange things have started to happen. Seemingly unrelated events connect, a sharp old woman seeks their company - and a priceless Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two children are drawn into an international art sensation where no one is above suspicion.

Vermeer has always been considered the most elusive of great artists, but this work tracks him down in his home town. It takes the reader back to 17th-century Delft, and gives a portrait of Vermeer, the Protestant who married a prosperous Catholic girl and had 15 children.

Vermeer is considered by some to be one of the most profound books ever written on the artist. The volume also includes an essay on Jan Vermeer, Counterfeiter of Grace , written by the author shortly before his death in which he sums up current Vermeer research.

Most of Jan Vermeer's pictures, reproduced in this text, show women about their daily business. Vermeer records the tasks and duties of women, the imperatives of virtue under which their lives were lived, and the dreams that provided the substance of their contrasting counter-world.

In this study, Vermeer scholars examine the life and works of this 17th-century Dutch master. It analyzes his evolution from a painter of religious and mythological images to an artist who explored the psychological nuances of human endeavour.

Tracing the many counterpoised sensations that make up Vermeer's equanimity, this book leads us into a world of nuances and surprise. It features over eighty illustrations. It is suitable for students of Vermeer, and those who feel the exhilaration of what Cezanne called 'thinking in images.'

Presents an account of greed, hubris, excess, treason and fine art, which tells the story of a failed artist and the greatest forger of all time, who executed a swindle which earned him the equivalent of fifty million dollars and the acclaim of the very critics who had mocked him.

A study of the 17th-century Dutch master, Jan Vermeer, best known for his domestic interiors depicting men and women reading, writing, drawing or playing musical instruments.

Philip Steadman investigates the claims that the 17th-century artist, Johannes Vermeer, used the camera obscura to create some of his artwork. this study reconstructs his studio, complete with camera. He asserts that that this experimentation with new technology enabled his style to develop.

Revolutionizes how we think about Johannes Vermeer's work and life. This book offers interpretations of several key documents pertaining to Vermeer. It also includes a color, two-page spread that presents the entirety of Vermeer's oeuvre arranged in chronological order in 1/20 scale, demonstrating his gradual formal and conceptual development.

Vermeer's Wager stands at the intersection of art history and criticism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, Ivan Gaskell explores what it might mean to know and use a work of art.

An elegantly bound study chronicling the work of the artist who uniquely exemplified Holland's Golden Age, with all of his paintings stunningly reproduced for the first time in a single volume.

This study presents the complete works of the great Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer. The text includes a short essay and commentaries on each of the paintings, and incorporates new research on Vermeer's life and extraordinary artistic achievements.

This volume reproduces every one of Vermeer's works, including the recently attributed Saint Praxedis.

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 Ver

Vermeer, Goya, Rembrandt, Rubens - the Beit art collection was worth millions. For decades Sir Alfred and Lady Beit had lived peacefully at Russborough House in Ireland. Until people started stealing their paintings...Of all the canvases at Russborough, it was Vermeer's Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid that most caught the public's imagination. Twice stolen, once by an IRA sympathiser and then

Frustrated author Herman Orff takes up the offer of a cure for writer's block and plunges into a semi-dreamland inhabited by a bizarre combination of characters from myth and reality: the talking head of Orpheus, the young girl of Vermeer's famous portrait, and a frequency of Medusas.

Using a historical analysis of Vermeer's method of production and a close reading of his art, this book explores the originality of Vermeer in the context of 17th-century Dutch painting. It suggests that his confrontation with painting represented a very personal effort to define a new pictorial practice within the classical tradition of his art.