Vermeer

By Sandra Forty

Jan Vermeer is acknowledged as one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Yet in his lifetime he was largely unregarded and struggled to make a living for himself and his family. He lived and worked all his life in the prosperous Dutch town of Delft painting perfectly beautiful pictures of the inhabitants and their homes. Vermeer’s technique was faultlessly meticulous and consequently painstakingly slow. Fewer than forty of his paintings have survived, in fact he probably did not paint any more. Obscure within his own lifetime it wasn’t until two hundred years after his death that his true worth was recognized and his wonderful works were shown to the world. This book shows all of his paintings and explains some of the techniques and meanings of these apparently innocent paintings of Dutch small town life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: TAJ Books International
• Release date: Mar 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781844062096

Sandra Forty

Sandra Forty is a graduate of London University where she studied medieval and early modern history, including a spell at the Courtauld Institute learning about Renaissance art from Professor Gombrich. Since then she has worked as a journalist in London, then as a book editor and writer. She is the author of a number of books, most on art and architecture. Sandra lives in south Devon with her husband, children and many cats.

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