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Girl Reading at an Open Window - Vermeer (1657-59) (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I am fascinated by fact that the upper right is where someone painted a painting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Yo dawg... We heard you like paintings...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Had a wee gander at the entry about the painting on Wikipedia, and learned that that part had been painted over after Vermeer's death, only to be revealed by restoration in 2021!

EDIT: http://www.essentialvermeer.com/cat_about/open.html

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Exciting, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fascinated by what it is saying to us about the rest of the painting, and the beholder.

Some story going on here!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's always a lot going on with Vermeer. Often female subjects and the lower classes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Always a story and suspense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

It feels like a flex when painters paint paintings inside their paintings.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I thought the painting was a window and wondered why it wasn't titled "huge baby stands outside window during the apocalypse"