Status Updates From Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found

Extremely dense with fascinating info on the 30 & 80 Years Wars - setting the stage for a revised, contextual interpretation of Vermeers subjects.

Debunks Tracy Chevalier’s silly take on the making of “Girl With a Pearl Earring”, actually a reverent homage to the Virgin Mary as portrayed by Pieter Van Ruijvens daughter Magdalena. (In a nutshell)

Fascinating.

Biographical details and speculation re Vermeer’s childhood and family life in Delft; his marriage to the Catholic Catharina of Gouda; the influence of Italian / Renaissance art on the Dutch style; the religiosity of Vermeer’s early paintings such as Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (1657-9)