Vermeer, Beyond Time (2017)

This exquisite documentary details Johannes Vermeer's works and family life in Delft, Netherlands, including his marriage and conversion to Catholicism. Not much is known of how he trained for 6 years, as was the custom, under a master painter in order to be allowed membership in the guild of painters. The narrator explains how 5 painters could have been his tutors. Vermeer's wife Katerina had 15 births, so pregnancy and birth were common conditions of their lives. His father was a weaver of fine fabrics and so it is thought that this is why many fabrics are shown in his work. Symbolism in paintings is explained in several of his paintings.