Vermeer: Reception and Interpretation

Abstract

Introduction: reception and interpretation Part I. Idyll: The German Reception of Dutch Art and Vermeer's Paintings of Social Life: Introduction 1. Hegel's legacy to German scholarship on seventeenth-century Dutch painting 2. Vermeer's paintings of social life as 'disturbed idylls' 3. Temporality and difference: 'The Chinese Hat' Part II. Fiction: The French Reception of Vermeer and the Modernity of Vermeer's Cityscape: Introduction 4. French travel literature of the nineteenth-century 5. Art criticism 1859-1913: the 'Oriental' Vermeer 6. The modern Vermeer: Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past 7. Seriality and originality: Vermeer's View of Delft, his 'Identical World' and Dutch painting in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past 8. 'Fernbild' Part III. Allegory: The Question of Authority in Vermeer's The Art of Painting and Allegory of Faith: Introduction: 'The Rat and the Snake' 9. Theories and concepts of allegory 10. Vermeer's The Art of Painting 11. Veritas Filia Temporis 12. Vermeer's Allegory of Faith Epilogue Notes References Index.

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