Wednesday Links

Vermeer’s colors, how celebrity book clubs work, the history of footnotes, a “magisterial” history of the French Revolution, and more.

Johannes Vermeer, The Procuress (1656). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Good morning! Adnan R. Khan writes about the scientists who investigate the colors of Vermeer and Van Gogh: “Is the colour, as we see it today, the same colour the artist saw when they applied it to the canvas? And if it has degraded, what would the original have looked like?”