In Quiet Light: Poems on Vermeer's Women
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Book Overview
Although the paintings of Jan Vermeer continue to be celebrated, very little is known about the painter himself - and even less about the women he painted. Who were they? What were their lives like?... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0802838790
ISBN13:9780802838797
Release Date:January 2000
Publisher:William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Length:71 Pages
Weight:0.74 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.6" x 7.7"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
A magical light caught by brush and pen.....
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
DO read this book, and buy copies for gifts! The beauty of Vermeer's paintings as reproduced and explored here can cause a heartquake. This book is ALL beauty: light and shadow, personalities revealed, meditation illuminated.Will you find 'your' favorite painting, or discover a new one? "In Quiet Light" draws the reader into a communion of like minds similar to that experienced in Quaker meeting. The author, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, imagines lives lonelier than mine has been; yet there is suggested serenity and self-control, with a hint of subterfuge, in the women described by paints and words.If I could share a book with a dozen friends, "In Quiet Light" would be my choice this year.
Wow!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This coupling of poetry with painting is as natural as putting words to music. The inner light of the subjects' humanity becomes as palpable as the soft light that fills Vermeer's paintings. Wonderful!
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