... -reduced Roman Catholic Church in this now official Protestant land. (The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer p. 1) The development of a bourgeois economy and a free-commercial art market resulted in a significant change in the kind of art produced. For the first time artists were able to support themselves by specializing in a category such as portraiture, still life or various kinds, genre or landscape. Art dealers sold work to ... a Duck, Maes uses the simple colour scheme of black, white and red, set off with deep shadows, that dominates the Eavesdropper series. The young woman bending ov...

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