Crease vertical length of spine, otherwise good secondhand condition.

Vermeer has always been considered the most elusive of great artists but this book tracks him down to his home town, taking the reader back to 17th century Delft. Bailey makes use of the scholarly research that has accumulated in the last century, as well as recent findings, and then reaches beyond these facts to expose the hidden Vermeer. The result is a vivid, convincing portrait of the Protestant innkeeper's son, who died relatively young and left fewer than 40 pictures...