L'Ambition de Vermeer. Sculpture over the last sixty years

over the last sixty years

and five analytic chapters

They dreamed of making this institution a support for young artists

we must go back in time

Itineraries of museums and monuments in Italy

L'Ambition de Vermeer. Sculpture over the last sixty yearsTo a modern eye, what distinguishes Vermeer from his contemporaries, Metsu, Ter Borch or De Hooch, is the aura of mystery that emanates from his paintings. This all too common feeling has given rise to a vast literature, which is not always free of commonplaces. This poetic quality, singular and incontestable, is precisely the subject of this book. But it is not considered here as an ineffable dimension: as Daniel Arasse suggests, Vermeer, on the