Re:Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs
by jsqr on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @01:47PM
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The woman is facing the wrong way in Vermeer's, isn't she?
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Re:Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs
by smsm42 on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @02:58PM
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No, she's facing the right way - it's a music lesson, so she's facing the instrument which she's playing. But she's looking slightly towards the (I assume) teacher, as if asking "Am I doing this right?". On Tim's version, she has abandoned the instrument completely and is just talking to the gentleman, who is also much more engaged with her judging by the body postrue - I'd say even there's something else than music lesson going on in that version :) So these paintings, while being similar, actually depict two quite different situations.
Re:Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs
by tesseract on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @01:58AM
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She is facing the right way but her reflection in the mirror isn't.