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The Sunday Debate: Rembrandt vs Vermeer

Intelligence Squared

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Mirror's Universality

This is a painting from 16 65 to 66, mid career, and it is an amazingly universal painting. It's more that vermer has taken something that looks very specific and made it universal. He's allowed us to step into the ting and become part of the everyday life. All those cues that we normally get to be able to scan a face, to put an identity to it, have been stripped away. As a result, everybody thinks they knows somebody who looks like her. And here doesn't she look like this girl with the pearl earing? Even once someone said to me, i think you wrote that book because you look like girl in the pearls. How many books

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