Eye of the Beholder (CD-Audio)

from rivkat

Vermeer and Leewenhoek were neighbors and Leewenhoek was Vermeer's executor, though there's no definitive evidence they knew each other. Snyder examines their careers as representative of a time in which art and science flowed in similar paths; the lenses Leewenhoek used to examine the microscopi...

from greggchadwick

Having spent much of my life contemplating Vermeer's extraordinary paintings, I approached Laura J. Snyder's new volume on Vermeer and his milieu - "Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing" with an open but discerning mind. I must say that I wa...

from greggchadwick

Having spent much of my life contemplating Vermeer's extraordinary paintings, I approached Laura J. Snyder's new volume on Vermeer and his milieu - "Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing" with an open but discerning mind. I must say that I wa...