Vermeer and His Milieu: A Web of Social History - Hardcover

Montias, John Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691040516 ISBN 13: 9780691040516

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0691040516
• ISBN 13: 9780691040516
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 472
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