Jan Vermeer
One of the greatest masters of 17th-century Dutch painting, the paintings of Jan Vermeer are today ranked among the world`s most treasured. The 40 glowing full-page colorplates in this volume, the latest in the Master of Art series, reveal many significant details and are supplemented by 57 engrossing black-and-white illustrations, among them X-ray studies and works by Vermeer`s contemporaries. The text brings alive the artistic climate of Delft during Vermeer`s day and discusses how the artist employed the painting techniques available to him at the time. One of the greatest masters of 17th-century Dutch painting, the paintings of Jan Vermeer are today ranked among the world`s most treasured. The 40 glowing full-page colorplates in this volume, the latest in the Master of Art series, reveal many significant details and are supplemented by 57 engrossing black-and-white illustrations, among them X-ray studies and works by Vermeer`s contemporaries. The text brings alive the artistic climate of Delft during Vermeer`s day and discusses how the artist employed the painting techniques available to him at the time.

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