Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Seventeenth Century and the dawn of the global world The Seventeenth Century and the dawn of the global world Timothy Brook Offers an understanding of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray. OL16999153W
Traces of Vermeer Traces of Vermeer Jane Jelley "Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; the glimmer of satin, silver, and linen; we see the s… OL19723902W
Eye of the beholder Eye of the beholder Laura J. Snyder Taking readers to 17th-century Holland, where artists and scientists gathered, an extraordinary story reveals how two geniuses --a self-taught natural philosopher and an artist -- transformed the way… OL19996328W
Vermeer. The Complete Works Vermeer. The Complete Works Karl Schütz 256 pages : 34 cm OL20184134W
Vermeer and the invention of seeing Vermeer and the invention of seeing Bryan Jay Wolf "This book begins with a single premise: that Vermeer painted images not only of extraordinary beauty, but of extraordinary strangeness. To understand that strangeness, Bryan Jay Wolf turns to ways o… OL5897194W