Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earing” has always been regarded as a very good painting of a pretty young woman. But we now know that she is in fact Mary Magdalen and the pearl is the soul. It turns out that all Vermeer’s ostensibly secular paintings are metaphors for religious themes, that for some reason he decided not to make explicit. In fact, all secular paintings everywhere are metaphors for Christianity. This is why painting is a spiritual matter.
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