The paintings of Johannes Vermeer 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, Andrew Graham-Dixon vividly evokes the world of the Dutch Republic as it was in its so-called Golden Age, setting the painter firmly in the context of his time.
Dixon reveals the patterns of patronage that make sense of his work, painting a dramatically new picture of the artist Vermeer.



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