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You're listening to the Sunday debate on intelligence squared with a recent announcement from Amsterdam's Rikes Museum of an

Upcoming blockbuster exhibition of all of the obtainable works by Dutch Golden Age Painter Johan Vermeer

We thought we'd revisit one of our great debates Rembrandt versus Vermeer

We invited historian author and broadcaster Simon Sharma to debate which painter is the bigger draw with novelist Tracy Shivalje whose book girl with a pearl earring took

Inspiration from Vermeer now. Let's join our chair for the event Tim Marlow

Okay, first up Simon Sharma and professor of history at art history at Columbia University author of 17 books

I think to date and counting everything from slavery to the history of Britain to the history of the Jews, but also Rembrandt's eyes

Which has just been republished by penguin tonight. He's Rembrandt's voice. Let him start

23 minutes on Rembrandt starting now

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