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Vermeer special: the man, the show and an attribution debate

The Week in Art

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Vermeer's Sense of Depth and Perspective

This is one of those works where you do get the impression that Vermeer even if he didn't have a camera obscura in the studio he knew about them and was interested in the optics they provided. He married to a Catholic girl when he was 21 but a few doors away from his house there was a Jesuit school for girls. When I look at this painting I see a girl who is actively working on her embroidery but there's also a book laying on the table so it shows that this girl was not only focusing on the hand work but also would be able to read. Even in this tiny little image it's very small we see that he's able to manage that.

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