Art · Shared reading and close looking
The Vermeer Interviews: Conversations with Seven Works of Art
Bob Raczka · Grades 4–7
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The playful interview conceit turns visual details into evidence and models questions children can carry to unfamiliar paintings without waiting for an expert’s verdict.
Raczka adopts an interviewer’s role to ask the people in seven Vermeer paintings about their gestures, objects, settings, and seventeenth-century Delft world.
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