Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found by Andrew Graham-Dixion cleveland Dickinson's incandescent thinking is everywhere

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Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found by Andrew Graham-Dixion cleveland Dickinson's incandescent thinking is everywhereOne spring day in 1683, a notary's clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled upon one of the wonders of the seventeenth century world: twenty paintings by Johannes Vermeer. Rather than dispel the mysteries of Vermeer's life, this discovery merely gave rise to more questions: How had this one Dutchwoman come to possess the majority of the master's work? And why have these images among the most beautiful,