Andrew Graham-Dixon — Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found
Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon uncovers the life and mysteries of Johannes Vermeer, one of art history's most elusive and celebrated painters.
Date & Time at 7:00 PM EST
Location Politics and Prose Washington, US
Organizer Politics and Prose
Why we picked this
Vermeer left behind 35 paintings and almost no written records — Graham-Dixon is one of the few art historians with the detective instincts and the prose to bring that silence to life.
Andrew Graham-Dixon, one of the most respected art historians writing today, takes on the mystery of Johannes Vermeer — a painter who produced some of the most recognizable images in Western art while leaving behind almost no biographical record.
Graham-Dixon’s approach treats the paintings themselves as biographical evidence, reading Vermeer’s life through the light, the rooms, the faces he chose to render. The result is less an art history lecture and more a detective story about what we can know when the subject has left us almost nothing to work with.