Talk:The Wine Glass

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Did you know... that the figures in Johannes Vermeer's The Wine Glass (pictured) are taken directly from Pieter de Hooch's A Dutch Courtyard?

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The stained glass panel contains a personafication of Temperance, and the heraldic shield has three tiny geese in a row. In one interpretation, Temperance is watching over the drinkers as a "reminder" of that virtue. Are the geese "straightened out" and "lined up" versions of the people in the room? Do you see these, Ceoil? –Outriggr § 01:13, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mmm, you have a source for that Outriggr, right? Ceoil 15:51, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, but the ideas were by way of a book review on a Vermeer tome, and those ideas were considered rather "out there" in the review. Worth a mention I s'pose. –Outriggr § 19:51, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"out there". O-Kaayy. Ceoil 21:13, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The Wine Glass is an oil-on-canvas painting by Johannes Vermeer, created around 1660. It portrays a seated woman and a standing man drinking in an interior setting. The work follows the Delft School convention of genre painting, developed by Pieter de Hooch in the late 1650s. It contains figures situated in a brightly lit and spacious interior, while its architectural space is highly defined. The figures are set in the middle ground, rather than positioned in the foreground. The Wine Glass is now in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Germany.

Painting credit: Johannes Vermeer

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