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1650 – 1780
Golden Age & Rococo
Vermeer's quiet daylight, and the powder-pink frivolity that followed it.
🔍 How to spot it
Three giveaways that tell you what you're looking at — even for a painting
you've never seen. Each detail below is magnified from the work named beside it.
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Window light from the left. Dutch interiors glow with soft daylight from a side window, dust and all.
detail from The Milkmaid — Johannes Vermeer
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Stillness in the everyday. A maid pouring milk gets the monumental calm once reserved for saints.
detail from Girl with a Pearl Earring — Johannes Vermeer
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Rococo flips it. Then comes pastel silk, curling S-curves and froth — flirtation instead of virtue.
detail from The Swing — Jean-Honoré Fragonard
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💡 Quiet left-hand window light on everyday life — or pastel silk and S-curves if it's gone Rococo.
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The works
6 paintings in this chapter.
