- Artists' models, Artists' models in fiction, Social life and customs, Open Library Staff Picks
This book "centres on Vermeer's prosperous household in Delft in the 1660s. The appointment of the quiet, perceptive heroine of the novel, the servant Griet, gradually throws the household into turmoil as Vermeer and Griet become increasingly intimate, an increasingly tense situation that culminates in her working for Vermeer as his assistant, and ultimately sitting for him as a model.
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Intimate, grave, contemplative and earnest.
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Tracy Chevalier
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 271
- Publisher
- Harper Collins Publ. UK, Penguin Publishing Group, Wheeler Pub.
- Editions
- 47
- Language
- German, Spanish, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781471296321
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