Vermeer

Burlington Magazine
"Brilliant analysis. . . . Must surely rank as one of the most profound interpretations of a painter ever written."


Apollo
"It is, as we would expect, a painter's approach, but it is widened by the recognition that any artist's work is governed by the psychological nature of the artist himself. . . . A piece of first-rate scholarship and aesthetic understanding."


New York Review of Books
"Widely regarded as the most perceptive study of the painter."


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Lawrence Gowing's classic study has long been treasured for the painterly sensibilities he brought to Vermeer's greatly loved body of work. Now the text is available again, with a new foreword by Sir Ernst Gombrich, a new essay on Vermeer written by Lawrence Gowing in 1991, a new select bibliography and fresh reproductions of Vermeer's paintings.


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