Vermeer
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The paintings of Johannes Vermeer of Delft are some of the most
beautiful, even sublime, in the history of art. Yet like the life
of Vermeer himself, they are mysterious and have for centuries
defied explanation. Following new leads, and drawing on a mass of
historical evidence, some of it freshly uncovered in the archives
of Delft and Rotterdam, Andrew Graham-Dixon paints a dramatically
new picture of Vermeer, revealing many of the painter’s hitherto
unknown friendships as well as his previously undetected allegiance
to a radical movement driven underground by persecution.He also
vividly evokes the world of the Dutch Republic as it was in its
so-called Golden Age. This was a watery world of fortresses and
flood plains, taverns rocked by argument and cities stunned by
devastating attacks and explosions: all linked by a network of
canals where a uniquely efficient public transport system, operated
by horse-drawn passenger barge, enabled people, goods and ideas to
glide effortlessly from one place to another. The author sets
Vermeer firmly in the context of his time, revealing the patterns
of patronage that make sense of his work, and also exposing the
difficulties posed by his home life, which was dominated by his
Jesuit mother-in law and disturbed by the psychotic behaviour of
her only son.In the past Vermeer has been imagined as a remote and
enigmatic figure, but he emerges from this new account as a man
deeply engaged with his own society: well-travelled, a reader of
books, a man personally connected to many of the most interesting
people of his time, including merchants, philosophers, preachers,
bankers and regents, as well as his childhood friend, a
philanthropic baker named Hendrick van Buyten. Vermeer was also
deeply affected by the struggles that shook his world, the Eighty
Years War for Dutch independence and the yet more terrible Thirty
Years War, which ravaged the neighbouring German lands and resulted
in the deaths of millions. The author shows how he was moved to
become a pacifist by such atrocities, and thereafter made many of
his closest friends in the ranks of Europe’s first peace movement.A
further revelation is that Vermeer’s closest collaborator and chief
patron was a woman, as were many others in his immediate circle.
These are all previously untold stories. The many piercingly direct
descriptions of Vermeer’s pictures, which are the heart of the
book, shed new light on the intentions of the artist.Nearly all of
his best loved works, Graham-Dixon shows, were originally painted
for a single significant location in Delft. In light of such
discoveries every one of Vermeer’s major paintings, including The
Girl with a Pearl Earring, A View of Delft and The Milkmaid, are
reassessed and their meanings rethought. As a result the two great
unresolved questions about Vermeer – why did he paint his pictures,
and what do they mean? – are persuasively answered here for the
first time.
Výber kníh autorov
Allen Lane ,
Andrew Graham Dixon
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Allen Lane,
Andrew Graham Dixon
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Slovart
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