The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art)

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The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer offers a systematic overview of the artists life and work that will be useful to specialists students and the general public. Its eleven essays include studies of the artists development and approach to painting women as a subject in Vermeers work the role of Catholicism in Vermeers life and art and the artists reputation during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries among other topics. Collectively these essays provide a balanced and enlightening examination of many different aspects of Vermeers art.