Vermeer and His Milieu: A Web of Social History - John Michael Montias - Google Books

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This book is not only a fascinating biography of one of the greatest painters of the seventeenth century but also a social history of the colorful extended family to which he belonged and of the town life of the period. It explores a series of distinct…