{"product_id":"vermeer-andrew-graham-dixon-9781324124115","title":"Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne spring day in 1683, a notary's clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled on one of the wonders of the seventeenth-century world: twenty paintings by Johannes Vermeer. How had this one Dutchwoman come to possess the majority of the master's work? And why have these images--among the most beautiful, even sublime, in the history of art--defied explanation for so long? Following new leads and drawing on freshly uncovered evidence from Dutch archives, acclaimed art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon presents a dramatic and transformative new interpretation of the artist's life and work. Rich with piercingly direct descriptions of Vermeer's paintings, Graham-Dixon's biography is full of revelations. It upends the master's enigmatic reputation and depicts him instead as a pioneer of the early Enlightenment, a pacifist who was deeply affected by the wars and religious conflicts of the Dutch Republic and allied to a radical movement driven underground by persecution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Graham-Dixon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324124113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324124115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Andrew Graham-Dixon","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47244108726527,"sku":"9781324124115","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_57e2523a-a65e-444f-af08-b8efbb8e2dec.jpg?v=1758134958","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vermeer-andrew-graham-dixon-9781324124115","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}