Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-156) and index.
Contents:
Part I: The varied faces of love in Dutch genre painting. Words into images -- Love's rituals: merry companies to music lessons -- Cupid's messengers -- Hunts and conquests -- Indecent proposals -- The topsy-turvy family -- Picturing the good home -- Part II: Vermeer's difference. The reappearing cupid -- Of quietness and slow time -- An invitation to listen -- Reading, writing, (and) imagining love -- Returning the lover's gaze -- Metaphysical love -- The muse of unfinished history
Summary:
Vermeer and the Art of Love is about the emotions evoked in those elegant interiors in which a young woman may be writing a letter to her absent beloved or playing a virginal in the presence of an admirer. But it is also about the love we sense in the painter's attentiveness to every detail within those rooms, which lends even the most mundane of objects the quality of something extraordinary.0In this engaging and beautifully illustrated book, Georgievska-Shine uncovers the ways in which Vermeer challenges the dichotomies between 'good' and 'bad' love, the sensual and the spiritual, placing him within the context of his contemporaries to give the reader a fascinating insight into his unique understanding and interpretation of the subject.
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