Examines the life and works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Contains critical commentary on the life and art of seventeenth-century Dutch painter Jan Vermeer, and features forty color plates, as well as black-and-white photographs, that document his work.

An introduction to the artist and his work. "Although trained in the French fine-arts academy, throughout his long career he never painted like anyone else. A deeply religious man, he saw his work as a means of exploring spiritual and human truths, and his raw, searing pictures of prostitutes, clowns, judges, criminals and the working poor shocked the critics of his time. But, like his paintings on Christian themes, they also convey an uplifting message...