Johannes Vermeer: life of the week
4/27/202642 min
Johannes Vermeer is now regarded as one of the leading lights of the Dutch Golden Age, and indeed one of the greatest artists of all time. But in his own lifetime he was hardly known outside his own circle, and made so little money that he could barely afford to feed his large family. In this episode of the HistoryExtra podcast, Andrew Graham-Dixon, author of a new biography of Vermeer, chronicles the artist’s life – and argues that to fully understand the man and his work, we need to explore the religious milieu of the Dutch Republic in the 17th century. He was joined in conversation by Rob Attar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Rob Attar· Host0:25
[instrumental music] Johannes Vermeer is now regarded as one of the leading lights of the Dutch Golden Age, and indeed one of the greatest artists of all time. But in his own lifetime, he was hardly known outside his own circle and made so little money that he could barely afford to feed his large family. In this episode of the History Extra podcast, Andrew Graham-Dixon, author of a new biography of Vermeer, chronicles the artist's life and argues that to fully understand the man and his work, we need to explore the religious milieu of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century. He was joined in conversation by Rob Attar.
Speaker 21:14
In your book, you write that Vermeer has been nicknamed the Sphinx of Delft. Why has it been so hard for people to get a handle on him?
Andrew Graham-Dixon· Guest1:22
Because of the strange uniqueness of his life, and it's just been terribly, terribly difficult to get to the heart of it. And having,