Customer Reviews
A beautiful collections of paintings -- Johannes Vermeer - By: Luis Mansilla Miranda, 24 Aug 2008 
I must confess that I knew Vermeer when I watched the movie "Girl with a Pearl Earring", a not very known movie from 2003, but with a very good story based on the life of this painter. When I bought this book I thought was a normal size book, but it is double the size of that, so you can appreciate all the plates with better resolution. What a great painter, Vermeer based his pictures on domestic situations, tipicallyin the same room, with an exquisite use of colors & a masterful use of light. Everythingin his painting looks so real, the textures of the tapestry, the clothes of the women, the breadin the precious "The Milkmaid" -- which remember me those breads my mother does, the glasses & those provocative lips of the "Girl with a Pearl Earring", a painting that celebrate woman, the dutch monalisa. This is Art, pure Artin his highest, from this skillful dutch master.
Vermeer: the complete works - By: kate groves, 01 Oct 2003 
The beginning of the book gives a concise overview of Vermeers work which is a good reminder for readers familiar with the artist but also provides all the vital points to people first learning about Vermeer.
The rest of the book covers all his works with full page pictures of the paintingin exceptionally good colour reproduction. It is a very informative book highlighting many features within his paintings that could be easily remain unnoticed & explains there relevance.
