Beginning with the popularization of paintings of everyday life, artists have made intimate scenes of room interiors. In seventeenth century Netherlands, a market for art developed outside of religious works, and artists began to make genre paintings, showing quotidian scenes of contemporary life. Johannes Vermeer painted quiet scenes of women occupied with domestic tasks like reading letters, pouring milk, or making lace in beautifully decorated rooms adorned with maps or paintings. Around the same time, Pieter de Hooch also painted interior scenes, often leaving a door ajar to lend his compositions a subtle sense of enigma. Later artists used the interior as a jumping off point to experiment with perspective and flatness. In Matisse’s The Red Studio (1911), one of many interior scenes he made, the artist deliberately left important architectural details out, prompting the viewer to fill in the remainder in his or her mind. Photographers, too, have made compelling images of room interiors, including Thomas Struth, Sheila Pree Bright, and Gregory Crewdson. Whether as backgrounds for an intimate interactions or as primary subjects themselves, interiors have intrigued artists for centuries. Other artists who have included interior scenes in their oeuvres are Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Edward Hopper, and Fairfield Porter.