Vermeer and the Art of Love (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781848224896)

Vermeer and the Art of Love is about the emotions evoked in those elegant interiors in which a young woman may be writing a letter to her absent beloved or playing a virginal in the presence of an admirer. But it is also about the love we sense in the painter's attentiveness to every detail within those rooms, which lends even the most mundane of objects the quality of something extraordinary. In this engaging and beautifully illustrated book, Georgievska-Shine uncovers the ways in which Vermeer challenges the dichotomies between 'good' and 'bad' love, the sensual and the spiritual, placing him within the context of his contemporaries to give the reader a fascinating insight into his unique understanding and interpretation of the subject.

Author: Aneta Georgievska-Shine
ISBN-10: 1848224893
ISBN-13: 9781848224896
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Language: English
Published: 09/22/2022
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 10.10h x 7.70w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2023