Who cares if, as a sensational new book argues, the painter traced and copied to achieve his effects? What matters is that the end results were sublime
Johannes Vermeer was a cheat. He was a printmaker, a tracer, a copyist. Some might say he was not a real artist at all. So suggests Jane Jelley in a new book, Traces of Vermeer, on the Dutch master. It is borderline sensational.
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Published on August 09, 2017 22:00