Womankind

STEALING VERMEER

When Dutch Baroque artist Johannes Vermeer painted in 1670–1671 from his house in Delft, the Netherlands, little did he know that 300 years later, Rose Dugdale, an English PhD graduate in economics, would cut the painting out of its frame with a screwdriver and lug it back

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