Main entry:

Blankert, Albert.

Title & Author:

Vermeer of Delft : complete edition of the paintings / [text by] Albert Blankert ; with contributions by Rob Ruurs and Willem L. van de Watering ; [translated from the Dutch].

Publication:

Oxford : Phaidon, 1978.

Description:

176 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm

Notes:
Translation of the 2nd ed. of Johannes Vermeer van Delft, 1632-1675.
Includes bibliographical references (page 173) and index.
Vermeer's life -- A master in Delft -- Vermeer's financial difficulties -- Vermeer's work -- Vermeer's early work -- History painting -- The emergence of the Delft school -- Dutch interior scenes -- Vermeer's The Procuress and Girl Asleep at a Table -- Pieter de Hooch -- Vermeer's discovery of sunlight -- Vermeer's city views : The Little Street and the View of Delft -- Further refinement, and the influence of Frans van Mieris -- The 'three women' -- 'Companion of joy, balm for sorrow' -- The Art of Painting -- A crisis in style -- Vermeer's late style -- The culmination of Vermeer's late style -- Mannerism -- Vermeer's last years -- Vermeer and his public -- Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Theophile Thoré and appreciation in the nineteenth century -- Van Meegeren's forgeries of Vermeer -- Two questionable Vermeers.

ISBN:

0714818194
9780714818191

Subject:

Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675.
Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675 Criticism and interpretation.
Vermeer van Delft, Jan.
Painters Netherlands 17th century.
Peinture hollandaise.
Dutch paintings Vermeer, Jan - Critical studies

Form/genre:

catalogues raisonnés.
Catalogues raisonnés.

Added entries:

Ruurs, Rob.
Watering, Willem L. van de.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 22087
Call No.: ID:87-B9046
Status: Available