Stories about Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age--and the clues the artists leave us to understand the paintings.
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Chasing the Girl
This week marks one year since I published my first article on Vermeer Stories. That article, “Disappointments in Love,” was about my interpretation of Vermeer’s painting called Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window. I argued that the let...
Vermeer’s Pluto
When I was a schoolboy, I learned that the Earth was one of nine planets in orbit around the Sun—from roasting hot Mercury, closest to the Sun, racing around it in less than three months, to lonely Pluto, freezing its ass off, way out there...
The Bosch Boat Parade
Other than the fact that Hieronymus Bosch and Johannes Vermeer both lived their lives in what is now the Netherlands, there is absolutely no connection between the two men. They didn’t live at the same time, and they sure didn’t paint anyth...
Vermeer’s Quietest Painting: A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer is known for quiet genre paintings. A Maid Asleep may be the quietest of them all. A woman sits alone at a disordered table, perhaps after a few drinks. She appears to have passed out. You can’t get a much quieter story tha...
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
One of Vermeer’s most-loved genre paintings is Young Woman with a Water Pitcher. Although many of Vermeer’s genre paintings seem to have some sort of story or message or moral, this one seems to just “be.” It is one of the simplest composit...
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I write about the clues Vermeer and other Dutch Golden Age painters left behind—and the stories those clues reveal.
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