Thursday, June 9, 2011

Floors & Ceilings

Allegory of Faith
Music Lesson
Art of Painting
Concerning these three paintings, Daniel Arasse points out that Vermeer did "only three paintings with floor and ceiling...it is tempting to recognize in this disposition a type of presentation, of framing, that Vermeer would have reserved to the allegorical statement— for reasons which remain, however, difficult to understand."

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