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Season 10 of the Art Curious podcast is sponsored by Anchorlight. For more information about their

programs and residences, please visit Anchorlight. For more information about their programs and

residences, please visit anchorlightrolly.com. In 2003, I was in graduate school at a university

in the Midwest here in the U.S. And my art history department was small. I mean, tiny.

There were three graduate students, total,

including myself. And so we hung tight and close. Whenever anything remotely artsy arose in our

environs, we were there. We were guiltily reading copies of the Da Vinci Code, going to all of the

student exhibitions on campus, and heading out to our

university town's only indie theater to see whatever movie was out that week. And I have a

distinct memory of one where a single scene made the three of us artsy grad students gasp out loud.

The camera peers into a luminous, darkly furnished interior, all warm glow coming through

heavy glass windows. This scenery, it was perfect. It was, is, an interior by Johannes Vermeer,

the great Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in these gorgeous domestic interiors and other

genre scenes and wasn't terribly prolific, completing only around 50 or so paintings during his

lifetime, only about 35 of which have survived today. But by God, this movie brought us in the

21st century into Vermeer's home. And if there is one thing that this

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