Robert Fucci: Vermeer's Art of Discretion: Modern Love and Private Letters
June 18, 2025
Speaker: Robert Fucci, Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam
On June 18, Robert Fucci, Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, delivered a lecture exploring the rich practice of epistolary exchange in the seventeenth century, and Vermeer’s attention to the emotional lives of the women writing and receiving letters in his paintings. Fucci was the guest curator of Vermeer’s Love Letters, the inaugural exhibition presented in the Frick’s new Ronald S. Lauder Exhibition Galleries, on view June 18 to August 31, 2025.