Vermeer
Subtitle: A View of Delft
Edition: 2 Reprint edition
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780805069303
Subjects: Political; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Artists, Architects, Photographers; European; Individual Artist; Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers
First sentence: Monday morning, 12 October 1654. Within the close-packed town of Delft - a long box of streets and canals surrounded by a defensive wall and a watery girdle of canal and river that served as a moat - laundry was spread to dry in several thousand back-yards.