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Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome welcome to Not Just the Tudors from History Hit,

the podcasts in which we explore everything from Anne Boleyn to the Aztecs,

from Holbein to the Huguenots, from Shakespeare to Samarise,

relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.

Not in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors. by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.

Not in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors. Some 350 years ago, a girl with a pearl earring looked out from her shadowy background, her lips parted, her eyes luminous.

Who this beautiful young woman was and what caused her to glance around are mysteries locked into the paint by the

superlative Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. She would outlast him and everyone who had known her

name. Centuries would pass before the painting enjoyed worldwide adulation. She would become the

subject of Tracy Sorrelie's best-selling novel in 1999 and would be played on screen by Scarlett Johansson in 2003.

Generations since she was painted have speculated endlessly about her identity,

one of art's most tantalizing mysteries.

Until now.

In his book, Vermeer, a life lost and found, the renowned art historian and television

presenter Andrew Graham Dixon has brought to light an entirely new understanding of Vermeer,

as a man deeply embedded in the most radical religious and political movements of his age.

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