Essay Topic: Interpretation of Vermeer Painting Entitled, “The Girl With the Wine Glass,” by painter Vermeer, the subject of this painting appears to prominently be a man seducing a woman and getting her into or past a drunken state.
The woman has one hand placed in her lap and the other hand is holding a wine glass slightly up in the air.
The fruit represents the fall from innocence.
The whole orange symbolizes the Garden of Eden (untouched, the woman is a garden; a temptation) and the peeled fruit represents the fall of Eve (giving into the temptation).
[SO, WHAT DOES THIS SUGGEST ABOUT THE WOMAN? The white represents her inno...
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