Her World Is a Letter: Vermeer’s Fascination With Writing Women
In Vermeer's paintings of women writing letters, art historian Gerdien Verschoor hears their pens scratching the paper in a world that is otherwise dead silent.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
In Vermeer's paintings of women writing letters, art historian Gerdien Verschoor hears their pens scratching the paper in a world that is otherwise dead silent.
You might wonder as you stand in the richly filled galleries of the Frick Collection and look at Rembrandt’s The Polish Rider: that lady in the sunglasses, that tourist with the camera on his stomach, that whining child – are they all look...