{"product_id":"a-view-of-delft-9780701169138","title":"A View Of Delft","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA View Of Delft\u003c\/strong\u003e by Bailey, Anthony. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780701169138.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohannes Vermeer has always been considered the most elusive of great artists, but this book tracks him down to his home town, taking us back to seventeenth-century Delft in a piece of historical writing that does justice to its now timeless subject. A brilliant blend of scholarly research and more recent findings, A View of Delft sketches a vivid portrait of the Protestant innkeeper’s son who married a prosperous Catholic girl and had 15 children of whom 11 survived. It also introduces us to Vermeer’s colleagues and fellow-citizens, and charts his celebrity out of Holland, including his effect on Proust and Hitler, among others. Vermeer died in obscurity at the age of forty-three, leaving fewer than forty paintings, many now considered masterpieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924577321013,"sku":"ByrdShop_0701169133","price":100.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780701169138.jpg?v=1794137248","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-view-of-delft-9780701169138","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}