1. Seventeenth Century Dutch Art - Vermeer, De Hoogh
Maes discusses the relationship between mistress/housewife and maid: As mistress is to maid, so wife is to mistress. He investigates this doubled or split persona of a woman in a series of distinctive paintings featuring divided domestic interiors with the housewife situated between the flirtatious maid down (S. ... (p. 104 An entrance for the eyes) Maes represents the problem in terms of the relationship between mistress/housewife and maid. ... The markedly young housewife on her way, in place of the maid, to refill the wine pitcher is between two scenes, part of neither. ... The emphaticall...
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