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Vermeer: Portraits of A Lifetime explores the life of the world famous Dutch artist, Johannes Vermeer. This book reveals observations that have never before been made about his paintings, his life, his friends and his family. Dedicated to revealing observations about the life and paintings of Vermeer, and the women featured in his painting — his family.
GIRL WITH A PEARLESCENT CAMERA
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This picture is a modern spoof on the world famous painting by the 16th century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. The girl in the legendary painting (as well as in several other of his paintings) is his second daughter, Elizabeth! Vermeer never hired models — he painted only family and friends. It doesn’t take a cosmetic surgeon to compare the features of the women in the majority of his paintings to observe that the same women are being painted in their own home, again and again in different poses, settings, lighting and clothing. Most of his paintings feature his wife, Catharina, who was not only his constant accomplice in creating a family, she was his foremost ally in his life as an artist!
The painting named (by others), “Girl with a pearl earring”, as well as “The girl with a red hat”, and “The girl with a flute”, and others, are all of his second daughter, Elizabeth, who was a teenager when they were painted. He used her as the model for a series of very small “tronie” or facial portraits, which were popular at the time.
These miniature “head shots” were especially well suited to the use of the camera obscura to create what we know now to have a photographic quality, rendering the light and perspective differently than the unaided lens of the human eye perceives it.
To learn all of the details about the women who posed for Johannes Vermeer in all of his famous paintings, read the book VERMEER: PORTRAITS OF A LIFETIME, by Lawrence R. Spencer.
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LAWRENCE R. SPENCER, Author, Editor, Poet and other stuff
BEING WITHOUT A BODY
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I write or edit books for Spiritual Beings and about Spiritual Beings. Personally, I think there is far too much literature in our culture that glorifies games played in the physical universe. Foremost in importance of those games, we are told by play-writes, poets and other propogandists, are those being played by Beings who inhabit bodies.
However, as Spiritual Beings, we are most certainly not a physical object. We may inhabit and animate the body — endow it with life — from time to time. However, animating an object does not mean that one IS the object. Western culture in particular enforces the false notion that each person IS a body. This activity is a trick and a trap. It is a method of control devised to enslave everyone, including the benefactors of slavery such as priests, politicians, bankers and other self-appointed aristocrats. Thieves and tyrants like these are also Spiritual Beings, though they deny that reality to themselves, as well as those they pretend to ‘lead’.
I trust you will find some story, poem, or insight in my books that will help remind you that you are the spiritual essence that is You. I empathize with you, as we float on this mirage in space called Earth. This is not our home. Although we are not alone, I am sure that You are the Hand that guides You. I encourage you to remain true to yourself. Be your own best friend. We may endure that rest of Eternity alone, unless you and I can find each other in the end — with or without a body.
Books written, or edited, by Lawrence R. Spencer can each be previewed or purchased directly from the publisher in printed or electronic formats. Click on the following link to see each of them individually: http://stores.lulu.com/pan