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I'm John Bachelor, continuing with Andrew Graham Dixon.

His new book is Vermeer, Life Lost and Found.

This is a detective story in the 17th century from an extremely famous Dutch painter who is all over the world now in American museums, in European museums, everywhere. And you look at them singly

and you think, boy, that's arresting. Wow. So different. So many of them are one small

little area inside a house, nothing sweeping. Others are, say, a landscape of the city that he lived in,

Delft, in Holland, the Dutch Republic in the 17th century. However, all of these things can be

explained in terms of Vermeer needed to make money. He did have 11 living children, 14 pregnancies.

He adored his wife. His mother-in-law was

mean with her money. She was extremely well to do, but she was mean with her money. And he was also

a man who was obsessed with following through with his skill for painting for one, well, two patrons

who were married, Peter and Maria,

who were conducting a hidden church in Delft.

This is a tolerant society, and yet the Dutch reformed Calvinists who dominate the governance

and city life, and the big church called the Old Kirk is in the middle of this

extremely happy town of Delft. They're surrounded by the Franco Wars with the Dutch Republic,

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