RaveLiterary Review (UK)In his densely researched and highly original book, Andrew Graham-Dixon aims to account for that strange suffusion in Vermeer’s painting through the artist’s contexts, contacts and religious affiliations ... This book is an extraordinary portrait, flooded with light and colour, and a splendid unfolding of the pressure of meaning in everyday life; in other words, it emulates the special charge of Vermeer’s paintings. But it does not exhaust them, or guarantee their final meaning. The paintings retain their mysterious absorption, with an immanent charge we can still feel.
