The Milkmaid, A maid concentrates keenly as she pours milk from a jug. It is a quiet, tranquil scene. The only movement is the flow of milk. Vermeer turned a simple composition of a prosaic subject into an intense work of is in the rendering of light that Vermeer truly excelled, painting tiny dots for highlights, as on the bread and the blue cloth.

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