READING — Quiet Moments in Art | 4K Silent Art Film

Reading is one of the quietest human acts — a moment when the world pauses and thought turns inward.

This silent 4K art film brings together paintings of women reading, created across centuries, cultures, and artistic movements. Each image is presented slowly, with gentle motion, allowing time to observe posture, light, and stillness.

There is no narration and no music.
Only time, light, and attention.

Best experienced on a large screen, in a quiet space — like walking through a museum room devoted to reading.

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Artworks featured (in order of appearance)
- Young Girl Reading, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1769 
- Interior with a Girl Reading, Carl Holsøe, 1903 
- Lisbeth Reading, Carl Larsson, 1904 
- Lesendes Mädchen, Franz Eybl, 1850 
- A young woman reading, Michael Ancher, 1885 
- The House Maid, William McGregor Paxton, 1910 
- Woman Reading in the Studio, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 1868 
Girl reading, Susan Hannah Eakins, 1920-25 
Interior, Vilhelm Hammershøi , 1893 
Maria, Helene Schjerfbeck, 1909
- Reading Woman, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1900 
- The Valley of Arconville, Theodore Robinson, 1887
- Reading, Berthe Morisot, 1873 
- Un Coin du jardin de Bellevue, Édouard Manet, 1880 
Roses, Peder Severin Krøyer, 1893 
- Portrait of Marie Jeanette de Lange, Jan Toorop, 190019
- Il romanzo di una cucitrice, Umberto Boccioni, 1908 
Reader, Miloš Jiránek, 1908 
- The Artist's Mother Ane Hedvig Brøndum in the Red Room, Anna Ancher, 1909