“This book is a treasure and a guide. It is a type of healing for the intellect and the heart.” - (Rebecca Lee) A lyrical and intimate account of how a poet

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This book is not only a fascinating biography of one of the greatest painters of the seventeenth century but also a social history of the colorful extended fami

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"The result is a Vermeer we have not seen before: a painter whose serene spaces and calm subjects incorporate within themselves, however obliquely, the world's