[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Not being familiar with the painting..."

It is one of the most luminous and BEAUTIFUL paintings in the world. Vermeer was without compare.

[nickcarraway]

I think it’s terrible they are destroying priceless works of art. I wouldn’t want them to do this to the work of an artist I hated.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Now that I see it, I recognize it. I didn’t know the name. And it is beautiful, something these philistines wouldn’t understand.

[Cold Heart]

My grandfather could paint like that. Very few of his paintings were original though. He could take that painting and paint one that looked just like it.

[BlueHorseShoe]

I completely agree with you. Speaking as a painter myself, Vermeer is one of our most important artists for myriad reasons. There are so very few paintings by him.

This one…a stunning beauty indeed.

[Sirius Lee]

There is a pretty decent movie, purely fictionalized, about it starring Scarlett Johansen.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335119