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Not about painting; painting itself, a relief.
And yet, not the inspiration of one bright sunny morning last week. Rather, the business of reworking, all windows open to the salt air of the European Renaissance, Italian Flemish, calmly assimilated with a medieval care that commands respect.

A new preciousness. Rationally at war with the machinery of rationalism.
Post-rationalism.

The objects re-occur. The masks.

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(Are they death masks? No, life masks actually.)
As with Vermeer, the appreciation of one painting is enhanced by an interrogation of the others. We become familiar with the enigmatic interior, mask, scales, antique illustration or text, books, drape....

vision, in homage to the absent 'Astronomer '?
Fruitless or fruitful, each mask an echo of girl with something.
Girl with Violin, rather than Girl with Lute.

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Girl with Dead Fish instead of Girl with Turban? 

Object and dummy. In these paintings the mask is both object and dramatis persona. An object fo