Thanks for the short video clip and info, Aimee. I miss "COCKTAILS WITH THE CURATOR". They were fantastic. Hopefully, 'The Frick' will recnsider to bring back this very popular and educational program.
Good citation list. Mistress and Maid is lesser known but incredible quality work of Vermeer. And it has unusual drama inside the space. Usually it’s serene and opulent. This one has a rare tension. Thank you.
LESSONS from PEARLS: Once a university student from Kuwait brought me a pearl after her return from the Middle East. Yet surprisingly, she did not know how pearls were made. I shared with her how constant irritation over a grain of sand made such a beautiful thing, and how difficulties in our lives can do the same. An even more meaningful story is of "the pearl of great price," one of the fascinating parables which won Jesus such popularity. In it a pearl, like the one in this Vermeer, is found by a merchant. To get it he sells everything that he has. There are two interpretations to the parable: One is that when we see the beauty of living in tune with God and people, we would exchange everything we have to be part of it. The other is that God loves us so much, we are like a pearl that he gives his best to save. He came to earth to be with and suffer with us. He died for our wrongs, and his resurrection gives us hope of eternal life - the best gift of all!
Thanks for the short video clip and info, Aimee. I miss "COCKTAILS WITH THE CURATOR". They were fantastic. Hopefully, 'The Frick' will recnsider to bring back this very popular and educational program.
Good citation list. Mistress and Maid is lesser known but incredible quality work of Vermeer. And it has unusual drama inside the space. Usually it’s serene and opulent. This one has a rare tension. Thank you.
LESSONS from PEARLS: Once a university student from Kuwait brought me a pearl after her return from the Middle East. Yet surprisingly, she did not know how pearls were made. I shared with her how constant irritation over a grain of sand made such a beautiful thing, and how difficulties in our lives can do the same.
An even more meaningful story is of "the pearl of great price," one of the fascinating parables which won Jesus such popularity. In it a pearl, like the one in this Vermeer, is found by a merchant. To get it he sells everything that he has.
There are two interpretations to the parable:
One is that when we see the beauty of living in tune with God and people, we would exchange everything we have to be part of it.
The other is that God loves us so much, we are like a pearl that he gives his best to save. He came to earth to be with and suffer with us. He died for our wrongs, and his resurrection gives us hope of eternal life - the best gift of all!
Vermeer May have been exaggerating with the huge pearls, but wanted to express richness and status in the subject
So true. What a pearl. And would there be a matched earring on her other ear?
Thank you! Beautiful lesson!
😍 Thank you very much 🌐
Yes nice interprétation or analysis Great Vermer...🌐😍💖👌
Almost all pearls for jewelry are cultured, that is to say farmed