ISBN: 9780714834627

Martin Bailey

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"In many ways, it should be said, Bailey's is a model biography. Taken merely as a sifting of all the documents that have come to light on the painter, plus the many hypotheses that relate to him, Bailey's study is unbeatable. It's a pleasure to read....Bailey concisely and helpfully brings the story right to the present, touching on the painter's growing fame outside Holland in the nineteenth century [and] about the role the painter played in Proust's life and in his novel....The only thing that's missing is a specifically Baileyesque conception of Vermeer....You put the book down believing that everything you need to know about the painter is here except that Vermeer himself has slipped out."

Sanford Schwartz, New York Review of Books, 05/31/2001

"What Bailey adds to other biographies is expansion into areas peripheral to Vermeer's life and art....He makes excursions into letter writing, the Dutch postal system, the role of music in Dutch social life, [and] the making of Delft tiles....Bailey offers us his richly imagined view, one among multiple views, of the radiant world of Delft and its master painter."

Susan Vreeland, Christian Science Monitor, 04/12/2001