Vermeer’s Annunciation
1. Arthur Wheelock, Vermeer and the Art of Painting (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 22–24.
2. Tzvetan Todorov, Éloge du Quotidien: Essai sur la peinture hollandaise de XVII siècle (Paris: Société nouvelle Adam Biro, 1993), 43–53.
3. For these two examples, see reproductions of the Annunciation by Giusto de’ Menabuoi (p. 48) and an Annunciation (by Dieric Bouts (p. 296), in Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery, by Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Dillian Gordon, and Nicholas Penny (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991).
4. Albert Blankert, Catalogue Johannes Vermeer, p. 39.
Ghosts at the Table
5. Quoted in Cézanne by John Rewald (New York: Abrams, 1986), p. 221.
6. Quoted in Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by Musa Mayer (New York: Knopf, 1988), p. 141.