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Fictional Argentine composer Juan Manuel de Rosa writes music for westerns and is murdered in Uruguay. He mistreats his fiancée Esmeralda while loving his horse, prompting her to cover herself in ink to resemble the black mare. Two horsemen shoot Rosa; in a staged re-enactment, cowboys marry Esmeralda to his corpse, then carry out his will by killing and burning the horse and the corpse.
In Vermeer’s Delft household in May 1672, his wife Catherine Bolnes, mother-in-law Maria Thins, and fictional model Saskia each write six letters to him while he is away. Their domestic lives contrast with violence outside, which intrudes tragically by the end.
Fictional Argentine composer Juan Manuel de Rosa writes music for westerns and is murdered in Uruguay. He mistreats his fiancée Esmeralda while loving his horse, prompting her to cover herself in ink to resemble the black mare. Two horsemen shoot Rosa; in a staged re-enactment, cowboys marry Esmeralda to his corpse, then carry out his will by killing and burning the horse and the corpse.
In Vermeer’s Delft household in May 1672, his wife Catherine Bolnes, mother-in-law Maria Thins, and fictional model Saskia each write six letters to him while he is away. Their domestic lives contrast with violence outside, which intrudes tragically by the end.