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Let this settle. Painted around 1658, The Little Street is quietly radical — a narrow alley, old brick, a grey sky. No myth, no allegory; just ordinary life held in stillness.
Vermeer transforms the unremarkable into the luminous, certain that beauty waits to be noticed.
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