The girl with a pearl earring! The painting!

I have seen this masterpiece in the Mauritshuis in The Hague!

For more information:

http://girl-with-a-pearl-earring.20m.com/

Girl with a Pearl Earring! Book of Tracy Chevalier

The movie 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' is based on the book of Tracy Chevalier.

Movie: Brush with fate! Johannes Vermeer!

"Brush with Fate" is based on the book by Susan Vreeland "The Girl in Hyacinth Blue." The leading role in the film is played by a never painted Vermeer painting. The film goes back in time through several centuries of Dutch history and owners of the painting. Ultimately up to the moment when Vermeer was painting.

The cast of the film consists of American, Dutch and Flemish top actor like Glenn Close, Thomas Gibson, Kitty Courbois, Jan Decleir, Thekla Reuten and Tamar van den Dop.

The girl in hyacinth blue.

Gezicht op Delft! View on Delft!

View on Delft!

Center Delft!

The girl with the pearl earring! Johannes Vermeer! The movie!

A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works. The movie has been recorded also in Delft and you can see beautiful sights of Delft.

Scene from the movie!

Scarlett Johanson
as The girl with the pearl earring!

Painting of Johannes Vermeer!
Girl with a Pearl Earring

(Meisje met de parel)
c. 1665-1667
oil on canvas
18 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. (46.5 x 40 cm.)
Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis,
The Hague

Delft, Johannes Vermeer!

Johannes Vermeer is one of the best known artists from the Dutch Golden Age. His name is inextricably linked with Delft, the city in which he was born in 1632 and where he lived and worked all his life.

http://www.vermeerdelft.nl/