"At the touch of Vermeer's brush, the canvas transforms, so to speak, into a spectral, silver-backed
mirror; into a magical retina... we are elevated from the realm of reality into the paradise of essentiality."
Paul Claudel
Music: Ashton Manor by Kevin MacLeod
Hosts: Rachel Sherlock, Greg Daly
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Works mentioned:
(All are paintings by Vermeer unless otherwise stated)
The Return of the Prodigal Son by Rembrandt
Belshazzar's Feast by Rembrandt
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid
Vermeer by Paul Claudel, Salmagundi Magazine
How Catholic Art Saved the Faith by Elizabeth Lev
Vermeer's Pregnant Women: On Human Generation and Pictorial Representation by Karin Leonhard
What We're Enjoying at the Moment:
Greg: Middlemarch by George Eliot
Rachel: The Sleeping Beauty Ballet, The Gentlemen, Uncut Gems, 1917
