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Andrew Graham-Dixon on Vermeer, a Forgotten Sect, and Underrated Artists

22 Jul 2026 17 published claims 2 attributable people
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Tyler CowenAndrew Graham-Dixon

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17 published records

02 / evaluation

I’m a big fan of your book, A History of British Art. In that, you insightfully remark that a lot of English art earlier on was harder, more angular, and less obsessed with perspective.

“I’m a big fan of your book, A History of British Art. In that, you insightfully remark that a lot of English art earlier on was harder, more angular, and less obsessed with perspective.”
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04 / belief

One thing I remember that was fantastic, which is one in the eye for the people who are always going on about the camera obscura, which I think is one of the more boring things people talk about when they talk about Vermeer.

“One thing I remember that was fantastic, which is one in the eye for the people who are always going on about the camera obscura, which I think is one of the more boring things people talk about when they talk about Vermeer.”
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05 / belief

One of the very few things I have bought in the last 10 years was a Mennonite textile made somewhere in the southern states of America out of little bits of the black suits of the mourning costumes of the men. A beautiful thing, and it was, I think, $1,000.

“One of the very few things I have bought in the last 10 years was a Mennonite textile made somewhere in the southern states of America out of little bits of the black suits of the mourning costumes of the men. A beautiful thing, and it was, I think, $1,000.”
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07 / belief

If I think about more recent neighborhoods, I understand King Charles may be trying, but it’s hard for me to think of a single place in America also that I consider highly attractive in the same way that British-built neighborhoods might have been knockouts, say before World War II, whatever the cutoff date may be.

“If I think about more recent neighborhoods, I understand King Charles may be trying, but it’s hard for me to think of a single place in America also that I consider highly attractive in the same way that British-built neighborhoods might have been knockouts, say before World War II, whatever the cutoff date may be.”
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08 / evaluation

Again, I remember I reviewed in New York many years ago—I don’t know when it would be, shortly before de Kooning died—there was an exhibition of his late work, and people were quite skeptical about it.

“Again, I remember I reviewed in New York many years ago—I don’t know when it would be, shortly before de Kooning died—there was an exhibition of his late work, and people were quite skeptical about it.”
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09 / evaluation

If Museum X has lots of paintings by Richter, Museum Y also does, Museum A, B, C, D, E, they’ve all got lots of paintings by Richter. In my opinion, Richter’s work of the last 20 years is almost worthless.

“If Museum X has lots of paintings by Richter, Museum Y also does, Museum A, B, C, D, E, they’ve all got lots of paintings by Richter. In my opinion, Richter’s work of the last 20 years is almost worthless.”
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12 / evaluation

He’s an unusual painter because he decides to extend and deepen a tradition that he has nothing to do with personally, nationally, or historically.

“He’s an unusual painter because he decides to extend and deepen a tradition that he has nothing to do with personally, nationally, or historically.”
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13 / evaluation

I think I may have seen those late, although the paintings were actually hung 120 yards apart, because when they put on that exhibition, they obviously weren’t aware of the context that I’d discovered.

“I think I may have seen those late, although the paintings were actually hung 120 yards apart, because when they put on that exhibition, they obviously weren’t aware of the context that I’d discovered.”
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15 / evaluation

Mystical aesthetics is where I would go with this because it seems to me that it’s a proper miracle that a painting that has nothing—nothing on its side, no one fighting for it, no one rooting for it, no name, it’s got nothing except itself—survives 400 years.

“Mystical aesthetics is where I would go with this because it seems to me that it’s a proper miracle that a painting that has nothing—nothing on its side, no one fighting for it, no one rooting for it, no name, it’s got nothing except itself—survives 400 years.”
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16 / preference

If I look at The Art of Painting, a painting by Vermeer in Vienna, one of my favorites, I used to think of that as a Catholic painting, in part because of the map in the back of the scene.

“If I look at The Art of Painting, a painting by Vermeer in Vienna, one of my favorites, I used to think of that as a Catholic painting, in part because of the map in the back of the scene.”
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17 / evaluation

I think there’s this very strong Christian undertow to this classical painting where you’ve got a basin and a cloth, and one of Diana’s nymphs is washing her feet, much as Mary Magdalene washes the feet of Christ in Flemish altarpieces.

“I think there’s this very strong Christian undertow to this classical painting where you’ve got a basin and a cloth, and one of Diana’s nymphs is washing her feet, much as Mary Magdalene washes the feet of Christ in Flemish altarpieces.”
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