Girl with a Pearl Earring
Ranked #5 in Art History, Ranked #6 in Painting — see more rankings.
With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries - and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
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Girl with a Pearl Earring is ranked in the following categories:
- #32 in Amsterdam
- #10 in Art
- #70 in Dutch
- #35 in Historical Fiction
- #50 in Renaissance
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