Cicero
The quiet rooms, the silent ladies, the magic light of the world of Vermeer. It is the beginning of a new world in Western painting. No more crucifixions. No altarpieces. No Madonnas. After five hundred years, suddenly the Madonna and Child disappear from painting in Holland and a new subject appears: the common man and the common woman. Maids. Cleaning women. Geographers. Astronomers. It is a new day.
