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The painter’s works invite us to marvel at the mysteries of perception, writes Kathryn Murphy – and we will never see so many of them in the same place again
These are but a few of the ways Vermeer immersed his subjects within timeless, serene settings where, distanced from a world awhirl in conflict, they experience inner peace. And the viewer, in the quietude of Vermeer’s space, can share that sense of peace.