This lecture will be a meditation on Jan Vermeer, an artist today celebrated in literature and movies, but forgotten until the 1850s, when a French art critic stumbled upon a masterpiece, View of Delft,” by a mysterious artist he thought might be named “Meer,” and devoted the rest of his life to searching for more “Meers.” Today, of course, Vermeer's crystalline cubes of light-filled space and his meditative, solitary women make him one of the most revered of painters.
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