Travelogue: Vermeer to Eternity

Days after I posted the final chapter of <a href="https://andygoldblatt.medium.com/maestro-keys-introduction-6385a36fc95b" rel="noopener">Maestro Keys</a>, The Fabulous Wife and I went on our first extended trip since before the pandemic. I’d been wanting to return to Europe for a while, but The Fabulous Wife was more Covid-averse — until she learned that the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is hosting a special exhibit bringing together 28 of the 37 paintings widely attributed to the 17th-century Dutch master <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johannes-Vermeer" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Johannes Vermeer</a>. She’s adored Vermeer’s work since her first glimpse of The Little Street during our prior visit to Amsterdam in 1996. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:289/1*u_vMiRRvuF5xQhjeY4ndNA.jpeg" style="height:350px; width:289px" /> The Little Street The everyday realism, the vivid detail, and the voyeuristic edge of Vermeer’s subjects — the two women in The Little Street show no sign of knowing they’re being observed — captivated The Fabulous Wife. “I want to see that exhibition,” she announced last December. I immediately agreed. And since we were going that far, why not add a second destination to the itinerary? We’d never been to Berlin, and had heard conflicting opinions about it, so we decided to go there too. <a href="https://andygoldblatt.medium.com/vermeer-to-eternity-296fa532faeb">Click Here</a>