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Article: Vermeer: A life that was anything but still: Interest in this 17th-century Dutch master continues to grow, but so few paintings exist.(Features)(Books)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 12, 2001
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Byline: Susan Vreeland
In light of the second major Johannes Vermeer exhibition in America during the past 10 years, and the recent rise of "Vermeer fiction," it isn't surprising that another biography of the 17th-century Delft painter is being published this month.
The challenge, of course, is to uncover new information in the limited archives already sifted by previous researchers. The lives of lesser artists contemporary to Vermeer are much better documented than his. Nevertheless, Anthony Bailey has given Vermeer lovers a compendium of known information and pieced together a vivid picture of the life that Vermeer might have lived, always ...