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Paperback Edition
- 978-1-03-834343-7
- 6.0 x 9.0 inches
- Standard Color interior
- 126 pages
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Hardcover Edition
- 978-1-03-834344-4
- 6.0 x 9.0 inches
- Standard Color interior
- 126 pages
- Keywords
- Dutch Golden Age art,
- Anti-Reformation movement,
- 17th century Dutch paintings,
- History of slavery,
- Colonial history of the Netherlands,
- Catholic art,
- Calvinism
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Johannes Vermeer—Provocateur
Risk and Courage in Dissent
by
Neil Thomas Proto
The 17th century. Delft. Working within the mythic “Dutch Golden Age,” Johannes Vermeer mastered light, color, and intimate settings. Award-winning author Neil Thomas Proto throws off that limiting mask, weaving the documented strands of terror, slavery, and condescension with risk-taking, courage, and dissent into a revealing image of the religious and social repression Vermeer’s countrymen unleashed at home and abroad. Civically driven, Vermeer defied the forces of law and corporate power that underpin that repression with the subtle strokes of his paintbrush. Look at Vermeer and his extraordinary paintings as you never have before.
Neil Thomas Proto is a lawyer who has also taught at Yale University and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. His books include Fearless: A. Bartlett Giamatti and the Battle for Fairness in America; The Rights of My People: Liliuokalani’s Enduring Battle with the United States, 1893–1917; and To a High Court: Five Bold Law Students Challenge Corporate Greed and Change the Law, a Grand Prize Short List Finalist for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Literary Award. Neil also is a Fellow in the Royal Geographical Society of London. He lives in Washington, DC.
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