Painting: A_ girl_ with_Pearl_Earring

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Date of Creation:1665Height (cm):44.50Length (cm):39.00Subject:FigureArt Movement:
Baroque
Created by:
Johannes Vermeer
Current Location:
The Hague, Netherlands
Displayed at:
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery
Owner:
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery

Young lady with a Pearl Earring was initially titled Girl with a Turban and it wasn't until the second 50% of the twentieth century that the name was changed. Viewed as Vermeer's perfect work of art, this canvas is frequently alluded to as the Mona Lisa of the North or the Dutch Mona Lisa.

The young lady in this artistic creation is accepted to be Vermeer's eldest little girl, Maria, who was around twelve or thirteen-years of age at the time it was made. Her facial highlights show up in a few of Vermeer's works yet his different strategies regarding his matter make it hard to think about the female faces in his depictions, as the lady are depicted in various lighting conditions and stances.

There is next to no data about Vermeer and his compositions. Young lady with a Pearl Earring is marked "IVMeer" however there is no date on this work. It stays obscure regardless of whether this canvas was authorized and assuming this is the case, by whom. It's more probable that this picture was a tronie, Dutch seventeenth century depiction of a 'head' painting that was not proposed as a representation.

Young lady with a Pearl Earring is one of more than forty pictures of ladies made by Vermeer and in this manner clearly he had an unmistakable fascination in ladies' socio-social parts. It could be contended that he esteemed their part in keeping up his romantic lifestyle by guaranteeing request inside the family unit and bringing up youngsters inside Christian esteems. In this way, ladies assumed a vital part in protecting custom and good esteems through the ages.

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