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 large 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 paintstakingly slow. Fewer than forty of his paintings have survived, in fact he probably did not paint many more. This book shows all his paintings and explains some of the techniques and meanings of these apparently innocent paintings of Dutch small town life.
