Woman in Blue Reading a Letter — Johannes Vermeer, c. 1663

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Credit: Rijksmuseum
Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0
Evidence: data.rijksmuseum.nl Linked Art record https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108372: subject_to classified_as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ on image (VisualItem) (read 2026-09-01)
Record: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/SK-C-251--8e9e02c8045362ffb2171b2fb52953ba
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principles of art history · heinrich wolfflin
Quite analogous is the development of the theme of the painter and his model, a subject known to earlier art as St. Luke and the Virgin. If we wish to draw the comparison here between northern pictures, and at the same Palma Vecchio PAINTING 77 Tintoretto time take a rather greater interval of time, we can contrast with Vermeer’s * baroque schema the plane schema of a painter of the school of Dirk Bouts,* where the principle of the stratification of the picture in parallel planes is carried out—in the
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Made in the seventeenth century, like Woman in Blue Reading a Letter.