Vermeer's Women

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It has been o too long since I last visited the Fitzwilliam but on this dank October day small lights shine bright. The Vermeer's Women : Secrets and Silence exhibition may only include four of Vermeer's thirty four paintings but these, accompanied by der Hooch, ter Borch and Vrel, act as jewells againt rich green museum walls. It would have been worth a visit to Paris just to see The Lacemaker but this exhibition also highlights Vermeer as the painterly painter. He may lack the fine detail of ter Borch but his depiction of light through dabs and gestures of paint is quite remarkable and, at times, can even make one think of Hals.