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Historical biographical analysis uncovers archival gaps and surviving works of Johannes Vermeer, highlighting challenges in reconstructing seventeenth-century artistic careers.
Vermeer remains, as Théophile Thoré-Bürger dubbed him in the nineteenth century, ‘The Sphinx of Delft’: thirty-five or thirty-six surviving paintings, almost no documents, no letters, no drawings, ...
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