Walter A. Liedtke

Michiel C. Plomp

Axel Ruger

Vermeer and the Delft School (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Two volumes, including works by the three foremost seventeenth-century Flemish artists{u2014}Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens{u2014}as well as works by their contemporaries. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Presents a catalog that surveys the Dutch paintings found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Hubertus von Sonnenburg

Aspects of Connoisseurship

Rembrandt/not Rembrandt in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Complete Paintings

Vermeer

Gerard Houckgeest, Hendrick Van Vliet, Emanuel de Witte

Architectural Painting in Delft

Frima Fox Hofrichter

Arthur K. Wheelock

Leonard J. Slatkes

1596-1674 : A Painter of the Night

Leonaert Bramer

Arthur K. Wheelock (Jr.)

A Painter of the Night

Leonaert Bramer, 1596-1674

The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer

National Gallery (Great Britain)

Axel Rüger

Michiel Plomp

Walter Liedtke, curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has assembled a splendid catalog of Vermeer and his artistic milieu. Seven lengthy, well-illustrated chapters (Liedtke wrote five, Dutch art historians Michiel Plomp and Marten Jan Bok wrote the others) describe life in the city of Delft; the painters Carel Fabritius, Leonart Bramer, and others who preceded Vermeer; the careers of Vermeer and De Hooch; the making of drawings and prints in 17th-century Delft; and the collecting of art in the same period. The catalog follows: each painting, print, and drawing accompanied by a lengthy catalog essay. Oversize: 12.25x9.75". c. Book News Inc.

Vermeer and the Delft School

Johannes Vermeer (16321675) has been one of the most widely admired European painters since his so-called rediscovery in the second half of the nineteenth century. Until quite recently, the Romantic roots of writing on the Sphinx of Delft have encouraged the image of him as an isolated genius; the artists private life and religion, his supposed use of a camera obscura, and the fact that his teacher has not been identified have all contributed to an air of mystery. As this new monograph demonstrates, Vermeers life is actually well documented and his work may be more appropriately understood by placing the painter in the context of the Delft school as a whole and of Delft society. The fact that one local patron acquired about twenty pictures by the artist (only thirty-six are known today) must have been significant for Vermeers subtleties of meaning and refinements of technique and style. In the end, however, the most historical approach to Vermeer still leaves us with a master whose rare sensibility and extraordinary powers of observation may be described but not explained.

Walter A. Liedtke

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