Kate Foley reviews the Rembrandt and Caravaggio exhibition at the van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, praising its pairing of the two painters’ use of light and its account of creative influence.
A poem on Rembrandt’s painting The Jewish Bride, describing the couple’s gestures, candle-like light and gold sleeves in sensuous detail, and ending in the shadowed gentleness of rest.
Kate Foley’s poem presents goddesses as ordinary women at ease in their bodies, nourishing and forgiving without demand, and finally accepting death. It suggests there are far more of them than we think.
