Vermeer painted The Glass of Wine around 1660, in the years he was working out how light behaves in a room. A woman finishes a glass; a man in a cloak waits beside her with his hand on a jug, and the whole exchange hangs on what happens next. The stained-glass window carries a figure of Temperance holding a bridle — Vermeer put the moral in the glass and then let the light do the arguing.
Vermeer painted The Glass of Wine around 1660, in the years he was working out how light behaves in a room. A woman finishes a glass; a man in a cloak waits beside her with his hand on a jug, and the whole exchange hangs on what happens next. The stained-glass window carries a figure of Temperance holding a bridle — Vermeer put the moral in the glass and then let the light do the arguing.