"...This is the exact opposite of what I was taught at school, which was that Golden Age Dutch art was all about things, and the way those things look. My father laughed when I told him what my teacher said, which was that the Dutch just loved stuff, and commissioned paintings of that stuff so they could look at it forever. Here is a Dutch tulip, red-and-white-striped, and here is a painting of it meticulously preserved for the day the real flower dies. Paintings are not substitutes, he said, they are something else altogether. A likeness is never the only reason an artist paints a picture.
Why did he paint the way he did, what was in his head? His pictures held other versions of peaches and planets than anything he might draw for a child; his art was closer to abstraction..."
Johannes Vermeer's 'View of Delft', 1660-61
"...In fact, if you look closely, you can often catch them embroidering a true-seeming scene with details that are less than true. Even Vermeer, renowned for his verisimilitude, shifted the placement of some buildings in his “View of Delft.”..." Diane Cole, WSJ, Aug 4 2023
... तेंव्हा जीएंनी सुद्धा Vermeer च्या चित्राच्या कॉपीत स्वतःचे रंग भरले असणार!