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Interior of a church by Anthonie van Borssom, c. 1644-1677
A man and a woman speak with a Capuchin friar, while two other Capuchins walk in the background.
(British Museum)
Flowering Prickly Pear Cactus, Herman Saftleven, 1683
(Rijksmuseum)
Suitably dark tones for #Halloween from Cornelis Saftleven’s 1650 witches
(Art Institute Chicago)
Johannes Vermeer,
Woman writing a letter with her maid, 1670.
(National Gallery of Ireland)
John the Baptist preaches, Bernardo Strozzi, c. 1644
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage
Adriaen van Ostade, 1673.
(Met Museum)
These depictions of reading as a communal exercise are so useful for thinking with.