"Vermeer as Scientist"

From the Times Literary Supplement:




 View of Delft

It is a truism of responses to the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s life and
works that what very little we know about the life stands in inverse
relationship to how intimately we relate to the work. This is only one of
many contrasts that shape our perception of the artist. His younger
compatriot Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–69) may have