Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring, Rembrandt’s triangle and real art’s appeal | Letters

Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring, Rembrandt’s triangle and real art’s appeal | Letters

Dr Keith Snell on Rembrandt’s painterly device and Geoff Ribbens on how society and culture frame our perceptions The neurophysiological study of Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring that identified a triangle of a “sustained attention loop” (Real art in museums stimulates brain much more than reprints, study finds, 3 October) seems to be an affirmation…