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Girl with a Pearl Earring is Vermeer’s most famous painting. It is not a portrait, but a ‘tronie’ – a painting of an imaginary figure. Tronies depict a certain type or character; in this...
Oct 14, 2023 · Johannes Vermeer created Girl with a Pearl Earring in 1665 during the height of the Dutch Golden Age. The painting is one of the best-known examples from the Baroque art period and is of the Realism genre. The medium is oil on a canvas 44.5-cm high, and 39-cm wide.
Girl with a Pearl Earring is Vermeer’s most famous painting. It is not a portrait, but a ‘tronie’ – a painting of an imaginary figure. Tronies depict a certain type or character; in this case a girl in exotic dress, wearing an oriental turban and an improbably large pearl in her ear. Johannes Vermeer was the master of light.
Oct 21, 2014 · 21 October 2014. By Alastair Sooke,Features correspondent. (Mauritshuis, The Hague) As Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring returns home to The Hague, Alastair Sooke delves into the story...
Feb 18, 2022 · Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Meisje met de parel) is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is a tronie of a girl wearing a headscarf and a pearl earring. The painting has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902.
Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring is the most famous painting in the Mauritshuis and is probably Vermeer’s most celebrated work. So many have been captivated by the way the...
Mauritshuis. Den Haag, Holandia. Girl with a Pearl Earring is Vermeer’s most famous painting. It is not a portrait, but a ‘tronie’ – a painting of an imaginary figure. Tronies depict a...
