A room sits empty, save for a lone chair and a shaft of golden light. Yet in the details—a patterned marble floor, blue Delft tiles, a stained-glass window pane—the setting for George Deem’s painting Extended Vermeer (2000) is unmistakably a 17th-century Dutch home. What other period’s interiors have become so immediately legible, and psychologically captivating, to contemporary viewers? Thanks to the work of Johannes Vermeer, the quiet simplici…
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