Vermeer's milkmaid. What would she have looked like if Vermeer had lived not in the Netherlands but in Spain?
The light in Spain is different. Unlike the diffuse light in the Netherlands, the sun gives off a warm yellow glow.
Different clothes and different architecture.
So could the milkmaid have looked like this?
The girl photographed in the historic Ermita of Albocásser, Spain.
Freely translated from Vermeer's painting of the 17th century.
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