Johannes Vermeer-Provocateur: Risk and Courage in Dissent - Softcover

Proto, Neil Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1038343437 ISBN 13: 9781038343437

Publisher: FriesenPress, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1038343437
• ISBN 13: 9781038343437
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126