one of the world’s most famous works from the ‘golden age’ of dutch painting has been restored, revealing a painting of a full-length cupid hanging on the wall. the painting within a painting corresponds to johannes vermeer’s girl reading a letter at an open window, which will be shown for the first time as it left the artist’s studio after its restoration and more than two and a half centuries. t
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