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Article: Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft, with Open Grave. (Poetry).
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- March 1, 2002
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INTERIOR OF THE OUDE KERK, DELFT, WITH OPEN GRAVE
Emanuel de Witte 1653[?]
And you, friend, in a footnote, thanked
for kindly
inspecting the date "under magnification," who
are dead these twenty years. The author will have
had some subtle
point to make (diagonal recession of the
transept, fluent brushwork, more or less
pronounced
than versions by the same hand in another
year), the painting will have been remote
(a small museum
in a small midwestern town), and you,
well you were graced with patience, you
might well
have taken pleasure in so formal, so
fastidious a task. And meanwhile this
alembic
...