Johannes Vermeer, born OTD 1632: The Art of Painting. Almost the only 17th-c. Dutch painting with an original title, and what a painting it is! The model, so calmly poised by the window. The painter, replicating her on his canvas.

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I think right now if we are in any position where we get to engage with a search for knowledge we should make the absolute most of it, and do our best to share that knowledge with others and create things of meaning. We have to be prepared enough to teach people of the future to value this.

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Oh goodness on a lark I printed one on some leftover handmade paper in the lab & I love it so very much

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That’s it, you all have to write your manuscripts in blue books in a room where I can watch you. It’s the only solution. 🫠

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Spot the works by today's artist, Quentin Metsys, that hung in the home of the great collector Cornelis van der Geest in my own time. Had all the stars!

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