Vermeer

LEFT: Titian, Venus with a Mirror (detail), c. 1555, National Gallery of Art, Andrew W. Mellon Collection. RIGHT: Lorenzo Lotto, St. Catherine (detail), 1522, National Gallery of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection

Symbolically, pearls have been associated with vanity and worldly concerns. Titian, for example, painted Venus' hair adorned with pearls. |

They can also represent purity, as seen in Lorenzo Lotto's painting of Saint Catherine.


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