Gerrit van Honthorst - St Joseph reading by candlelight (1615)Is it Vermeer, or perhaps Caravaggio, who is called the best painter of faces glowing from candlelight?…

Candles are rarely used at night these days… but as I walk across the darkened apartment on a moonless night, an iPad shines up, showing me the way, illuminating the room.

And Montaigne is on the page facing upward – that is also light….


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