Vermeer`s Women. Secrets and Silence. With contributions by H. Perry Chapman and Wayne E. Franits.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2011. Cm. 26×22, pp. 227, figg. a col. e in nero n. t., tela e sovrac.

Catalogo della mostra tenutasi a Cambridge nel 2011-2012.

The book investigates the subtle and enigmatic charm of some of Johannes Vermeer’s most seductive painting, which celebrate the intimacy of the Dutch household and women’s role at the heart of it. Essays by three internationally recognized experts in the field explain why women engaged in mundane domestic tasks, or in pleasurable pastimes such as music making, writing letters or adjusting their toilette, comprise someof the most popular Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century.