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The story of the disappearance and rediscovery of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, revealing how the iconic portrait was disregarded for years.
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My daughter, grand-children and I have just returned from Amsterdam having been to see the Vermeer exhibition. It is excellent and we were privileged to see The Girl With The Pearl Earring and the others.
❤so fortunate
I was 20 years old when I first found out such a painting existed. I'm a gamer not much of an art guy... I'm 40 now and I still am in love with this nameless, mysterious girl with the pearl earring. I hope 1 day I can travel to the Netherlands from the Philippines and see the actual painting in person.
Its nothing short of amazing.. Just think these wonderful works of art were like photographs of another time and life..
The saddest thing is that, when he died, they went through his house and said that there was nothing of any worth to pay for his funeral. Can you believe that!
@Draven Bruno no we don't care.
@@matttheman9740 no, guess not.
Spread love... no hate
@@lutti9437 meaning?
@@normadesmond6017 I care, what a fool!
Girl with the Pearl Earring! Love it! Love Vermeer!
I actually like "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" more than the "Mona Lisa." It's such a vibrant work. It has the same enigma as the "Mona Lisa," but it's just done so much more luminously, with colors that wonderfully pop and with such a deft use of paint. Notice that the pearl earring doesn't even have an attachment to the girl's ear. It's just a very acute dollop of white paint that simply floats there. It's your brain that makes it seem like it's an earring. It's magnificent, the illusions that Vermeer was able to paint. (Incidentally, the "Mona Lisa" was an unknown work until it was robbed in 1911 from the Louvre. Tracking down the robber became a newspaper sensation in Europe and North America, and that's what made the "Mona Lisa" extremely famous afterward. "The Girl with a Pearl Earring" is only 100 years behind, that's all.)
Hum, not really. I think you might want to learn a bit more about the Mina Lisa since this comment shows a lot of misunderstanding of the painting. Go see Great Art Explained’s video on Mona Lisa if you wish to learn more and not just parrot obvious distortions.
The Mona Lisa was painted just as vibrantly as A Girl With A Pearl Earring. It's not its fault it cracked and yellowed with age. Look up the Prado Mona Lisa, which was painted alongside Leonardo. That's what the Mona Lisa would've looked like in its heyday.
Both are iconic masterpieces but I don't see anything wrong if some prefer one over the other. I personally find the Girl with the Pearl Earring more pleasing to the eye than the Mona Lisa.
A full documentary on 21 minutes, how amazing is that?
Thank you for sharing this. I think he painted with feeling and He seen great beauty in many people. A painting is like a child. His creation of love and people. I think his paintings are far more beautiful, than the painting done in England. In the same time. Those have no feeling in them just a period of time. Be strung, control of and control of the land. They cannot see beauty like him. He had a free spirit. Thank you again!
Beautiful video about the girl with the Pearl Earring.
Indeed one of my favorite painters now is Johanna Vandermeer.
Thank you for sharing this video.
From Katrinka in the San Francisco Bay Area
A beautiful painting of a very beautiful lady.
Vermeer's painting is known by many titles. I bought a copy for my sweetheart a few years ago, and she follows me everywhere whenever I look. She is so beautiful, her luscious red lips and attentive eyes beguile me. (Both women by the way....)
@Neko Atsume *crickets*
@@adalydiaz4879 Beardless Barbarian
I'm saving money to visit Maurithuis soon., just to see her... And also The Goldfinch. Girl with a Pearl is simply insane.
Mauritshuis is 1/2 hour travelling from my door. We hope to welcome you again, when this Pandemic is through. Not only Vermeer, but Rembrandt's very last portrait, finished a couple of months before he died, is present. The Woman with a Water Pitcher is in Amsterdam. Good luck!!
Welcome sir. I hope that this pandemic is over very soon so you can travel to The Hague to go to the Mauritshuis.
The Woman with a Water Pitcher is at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Definitely also worth a visit!
Would love to see this painting or any of his work. Vermeer is one of my favorite artists
Don't miss Vermeer's View of Delft while you're there! It's even more impressive.
he's worth it! and there are quit a few of Rembrandts there as well! And in the same room there is the Goldfinch. Enjoy!
Love this piece, "The Girl with a Pearl Earring" Venmeer what an artist 🎨 I have seen this piece of art up close. MAGNIFICENT. ❤️
The Girl With the Pearl Earring has an ageless quality, she could be anywhere from a young teen to perhaps mid-twenties. I almost get the feeling that she could be an older woman who sees herself as she was when she was younger.
As others have noted, she also has a timeless quality. I can envision her living in just about any time period from ancient times up to today.
She's captivating, and this is a masterpiece.
Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earing
She's great because she's timeless.
She looks like she could be alive in the 1600's
as well as now.
Omg that’s what one of the divinki twins said
I love her.
One year ago I bought a complete packet with wool to embroider this great painting,stil have to start,
because presently I am busy embroidering other painting of Vermeer…young woman with waterjug😀
Its a wonderful job to do😀
Art History is my major and I love the Dutch Golden Age artists, they were truly masters.
Wonderful, wish you all the luck. Very interesting subject.
@@chriswhitehouse8982 u
Well, hopefully we can welcome you again soon to the Low Countries. Mauritshuis is a wonderful small museum, much Vermeer and Rembrandt, including his very last self portrait, finished a few months before he died. And you should visit Belgium, as well; Jan van Eyck, Memling, Rubens, Breugel. Best of luck. Greetings from Leiden.
I love The Goldfinch by Donna Tart, and I’m so glad because of it an artist is getting recognized.
i was flipping through an art book and that goldfinch stop me in my tracks, its subtlety yet 3 dimensional smoothness its mind blowing , its like if you move in a threatening way the finch can fly off! you are absolutely right, and amazing lil painting !
@@xcesar4impx666 the best part about it is how you described it as if the bird will fly away, but if you look at its feet-it’s chained! so much subtlety.
That book made me visiting the Mauritshuis.
Which is not by Vermeer, but that painting was already famous before someone wrote a book about it.
I’ve listened to the brilliant reading, from Audible, so many times that I know whole passages by heart!
I love the characters, & the dialogue
(the quarrel in the bar, is my favourite scene out of ALL fiction...)
Boris has replaced Daniel Deronda as my fictional hero!
The film left out so much - I have to picture the visit to Horst, a dealer with a real affection for Art, another of Donna Tartt’s so tragic, so appealing character...
I’m very glad that the novel inspired my curiosity about most Art, & its ability to move & influence life 💔
So captivating and so mamy questions that we will probably never have answers for. Lovely!
Together with Velasques, Vermehr is my favourite artist . I admire to their work from my childhood . For me is miraculous.
Merely moments ago, I just finished reading a book📖📚 about his remarkable 🥇🏆🎨🖼️paintings, thank you ‼️‼️‼️‼️❕❕❕❕❗❗❗❗
Ever since I saw that movie I have wanted to get that painting too. I do like it alot. But I dont think I can spend that much on myself. But I think its awesome. Great Artist too. ❤
It’s has always made me feel sad for the artists that many would never know the fame and fortune their magnificent paintings would garner.
there are thousands of living, hard-working geniuses whose work doesn't fit into the art market's bullshit
it's nuts right. Imagine who the girl is, she never knew her face is widely recognizeable 400 years later.
I have thought of that since I was a child. I think that’s the case for some of the composers as well.
@sparklebutt: Yes definitely composers. Artists and composers -- dying dirt poor and their art and music generating millions. I just wish they knew. Maybe they do.
Van Gogh has sold only ONE painting during his whole life, nobody wanted to buy his work. And now some offer millions for anything with his signature... What makes a magnificent artist? The same as coca-cola?...
I have seen about 1/2 the existing Vermeer paintings in the world including this one. It is a fantastic work by one of my favorite artists. My personal favorite Vermeer is "Officer and the Laughing Girl" that is part of the Frick Collection in NYC (though I can't put my finger on what makes this painting so special to me).
You are my gallery crawling hero. 👏🖼🎨🎟
@@constancemiller3753 LOL. Thanks. I love painting. Every chance I have to visit a major art musem I do. I feel very fortunate to have had those opportunities.
I know exactly what you mean about the Officer painting. I kept going back to it numerous times when I went to the Frick. There's something about the light I think.
I grew up with a reproduction of this painting. It had been a wedding gift to my parents. Sadly, my brother got it so I got my own reproduction.
The painting in the Metropolitan shows a child with the Down Syndrome. I immediately recognised it. One of my siblings is like that, too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_syndrome . What must have happened is that Vermeer indulged a wish of one of his children who was like that. The child saw her elder sister on the painting and wanted to have one for herself. They can be quite adamant in these matters. It becomes so aggravating that you simply have to give in and indulge them. Take that from me, for I know.
I thought the same thing.
Never would have occurred to me. I can see it now--and agree. Thank you!
I drove a special ed bus and it reminded me of a few of my passengers.
I've always wondered why and how the best painters in the world were created in Holland.
Wat denk je daarvan?
Children with Down Syndrome are a blessing.
The world can learn a lot from these beautiful gifts from God.
Warm hugs van Katrinka in the San Francisco Bay Area
I first saw this painting as a child, and as I grew up I always understood the power of it, as well as the red hat painting. My father was a portrait/ mystical theory painter with human figures in them always. Watching him paint and seeing his works, brought me insight to strong works like Vermeers'.
LESSONS from PEARLS: Once a university student from Kuwait brought me a pearl after her return from the Middle East. Yet surprisingly, she did not know how pearls were made. I shared with her how constant irritation made such a beautiful thing, and how difficulties in our lives can do the same.
An even more meaningful story is of "the pearl of great price," one of the fascinating parables which won Jesus such popularity. In it a pearl, like the one in this Vermeer, is found by a merchant. To get it he sells everything that he has.
There are two interpretations to the parable:
One is that when we see the beauty of living in tune with God and people, we would exchange everything we have to be part of it.
The other is that God loves us so much, we are like a pearl that he gives his best to save. He came to earth to be with and suffer with us. He died for our wrongs, and his resurrection gives us hope of eternal life - the best gift of all!
ultramarine blue is the pigment that was used in the girl's head scarf, which in vermeers time had to be transported from what is now afganistan. There are lessons in pearls, but religious ones are more personal and individual than you think. When i see a pearl I see far more lessons about evolution than about creationism. why would god create a creature just to "constantly irritate" it? A pearl shows how a creature can turn turmoil into something beautiful, despite the world they dropped into being unfair. I don't at all see why i should believe in a god that creates such turmoil much less respect them for it? maybe I'm just not arrogant enough to think the one religion I was taught when I was a kid MUST BE the correct one and all others are wrong. nonsense.
@@chrismofer At least we seem to agree that difficulties can be overcome into something beautiful.
My take is that she's around 13 years old, and that her expression is that she adores the painter who is her dad, Vermeer. It would be interesting to know if they have church records of his children's birth dates, and their ages at his death, as they said it's a later painting in his life. This would narrow the possibilities of which of his eleven children it could be. There's a surprising amount of such church records from hundreds of years ago.
Interesting thought and highly possible!
I just finished a book, and you're correct, his eldest child, a daughter.
@@blessingsofparadise4439 Thanks for the post! I wonder if her age range is a match from the time they think he painted it? My grok is as I said, 13. But she could be anywhere from 13 to 18.
@@algini12 On the younger side, this phenotype you can stil see walking around in our country lmao.
No we don't keep those kind of documents in a Church.
They are simply found in townhall.
A commentator name 'Ghost of Henry,' asked about the lack of eyebrows on the young woman? The question made me think about the questions raised in the video regarding her wearing the blue scarf which was not known to be the style of the time. I looked at the painting again and realized the lack of not only eyebrows but also her eyelashes. But surprising to me was the fact that she also had no hair showing on her head, not even sideburns. I love asking questions too and making observations like these. Maybe these missing attributes can help identify her? Who knows?
There is a medical condition called alopecia which could cause the loss of all the hair from a person's body. Maybe both young ladies suffered from medical conditions which affected their features? The other less favorable portrait definitely shows a young woman with Down Syndrome (as someone else mentioned.)
Vermeer was reported to have eleven children. It's possible that genetic, other types of birth defects and disorders could have been evident in Vermeer's children? It is now known that Vermeer's paint mixtures were highly poisonous. Continuous exposure to the mixtures over time (by breathing in their vapors and most definitely from skin contact) could have possibly caused birth defects?
Vermeer's wife and children could have been exposed to the deadly mixtures and developed medical conditions? Vermeer's sudden death could have been from his exposure to years of toxic paint mixing and use? It would be interesting to check his children's medical records to see if any had medical issues caused by slow unintentional poisoning?
Cheaquetta Johnson: Your comment is very interesting.
That is really interesting ! Unfortunately im speechless !
It’s a huge stretch of the imagination!
@@catofthecastle1681 why?
It's not up uncommon for Dutch people to have white blond hair. She has eyebrows, just not in a contrasting colour to her skin.
Wonderful,informative video.Thank you so much for this!
The most remarkable feature of this so much interesting documentary is that it shows you how a "masterwork" is created throug the institutions of art: the experts explain the beautiful painting by Vermeer and all of a sudden it appears another painting by Carol Fabritius, which will for its part become another masterwork. Well done!
I'll never forget Tracy's phrase in a debate about who was the biggest, Vermeer or Rembrandt, she said "Rembrandt painted for Rembrandts, Vermeer painted for us".
"For us" she means for simple persons.
@@lutti9437 by us they mean, "Non-artists". How do I know? Because Rembrandt was referenced as "for artists"; therefore Vemeer is for the rest of us. Unless you are saying that anyone who isn't an artist is simple. My reply to that is, "No, Honey, it's just you."
I chanced upon Vermeer when I saw an article on him in Smithsonian Magazine. I didn't know of him until this. When I saw the picture of his painting The Geographer, I was stunned, mesmerized.
To this day my favorite works of his are the twin paintings The Geographer & The Astronomer, using the same male model that is believed to be Anton Von Lewenhuek (sp?). I continue to keep the image of The Geographer as the wallpaper on my PC. I swear, I know the man, knew the man in a previous life. He intrigues, he beckons. This is how astonishing Vermeer's work is to me.
Edit: You have a new subscriber.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
It's thought by a Japanese art professor that Vermeer also drew in the scientists books.
I disagree with what those experts said about The Met's painting being inferior in quality. I think its a better painting. She's not as beautiful and there's no dramatic iconographic tropes to latch onto. But the girl with the pearl looks like a painting. The one in the Met comes pretty close to being photographic. Fame shouldn't denote quality.
Agreed
I agree 100%
Well, art will always be personal. I have to disagree. The pearl girl has more 3D effect. Her expression is more mysterious. She invites you in. She encapsulates you with her look. That is what makes it so brilliant (and the pearl itself is better of course).
A girl with pearl earring. Love it. And kindly request for put the subtitles
one of my most favorite paintings i can look at it for hours on end. Las Meninas is my 2nd favorite same thing can study it for hours.
This could have been so much more effective if we had been allowed longer glimpses of the works of art.
Exclusivity + expensive
There's a reason why CZcams has a "pause" function.
Hello from British Columbia Canada ❤❤❤❤❤
With so few known works for an artist possessing such exquisite, polished ability, there just has to be more of his works out there, possibly attributed to others incorrectly.
The Mona Lisa is also of the other world, the painter knew that, and she knew he knew, she smiled at him faintly whenever he looked at her with enchantment.
Amazing and beautiful painting
Definitely my top 3 painters of all time. "The Girl" is unquestionably his best. Its too great that Monalisa should be called the girl of the south
The painting in The Metropolitan Art Gallery in the U.S. looks as if the face was painted over another. As the commentator stated it looks too flat and somewhat larger. It is still very beautiful and I don’t think it should be compared to the Girl with the Pearl Earring except for the artistic way it was painted with more of an angle. I love Vermeer’s use of light in his Art.
Since no one is sure of what Vermeer looked like, I wanna believe Vermeer looked like Colin Firth, thank you very much!
Nice.
Lots of fill on this video
I worked on the other side of the square of the Mauritshuis for 20 years. I got a tour with my colleagues inside the Mauritshuis. We were the only visitors as it was only open to us (working at a Ministry has its advantages sometimes...). But..... no girl with the pearl. She was gone. I don't remember if she was being cleaned, or lent out to another museum. So, I have to go again, pay the fee, line up between hundreds of tourists to catch a glimpse, I suppose. After COVID 19, that is.
You simple book a timeslot now. There very few people now because of covid. Now is the best time
Don't wait in June 22 I got Covid it may never go away
dude, this is cool
I looks to me like there is a pathos in the eyes of the goldfinch, chained as she is to a perch on the wall. I look at it and i want to cry.
Wow
They were going out of their way to not say how pretty one girl is, and how not very pretty the other girl is. 😂
But they did say it. Just politely.
So true!
No need for politically correctness, the other girl is just plain ugly.
@@jsprite123 One was portrayed by Scarlett Johansson. The other could be portrayed by Sloth from The Goonies.
Right. One girl is much prettier than the other. This is not really mentioned directly in the film for fear of offending.
I painted my great granddaughter as the Girl with a pearl earring.Very close to Vermeers style.
Sadly, that is the reality for many artists. They don’t get the recognition (or the value) until they are long gone only to have unknowns profit.
I found a girl that looks like her. She has strawberry blonde hair not just blonde. Amazingly beautiful painting and woman in RL
Thanks.Informative.
Scarlette Johansson was perfect in the movie ...
Did Vermeer use the optical techniques ascribed to him? His buddy van Leeuwenhoek would have helped!
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I never noticed how pretty the girl in the painting was till she was played by Scarlett Johanson.
The painter's face can be seen on the earing?
its' pretty funny that people when talking about vermeer always talk about him trying to show off the wealth of his city or time or trade. that is not how artists think. artists think about what looks good, what gives a deeper meaning to their work. if they are doing a portrait of an immanent person, they may want to show off what that person is proudest of. far more likely he liked the way pearls symbolized something unique, precious about women he wanted to present. More likely than he's like "my city's rich! look we have pearls!"
I wonder... Is it really was a pearl, and not for example a moonstone instead? I mean, that "pearl" is the size of her eyes. And in that time, were not cultured pearls, only natural, created by nature pearls, which are so rare, even the smaller ones. And this big and perfect shaped pearl could had been own probably only the royal family. Or if that really was a pearl, I think Vermeer painted it much bigger then it really was.
Look at portraits of “royals” of the time-Elizabeth the first of England was portrayed with enormous pearls in necklaces, brooches, and earrings. You can buy pearl necklaces with 16mm pearls (or larger) even today…but it will be *quite* costly.
@@thominaduncanson7596 Yes, but today almost all pearls are cultured what is much cheaper then natural, wild pearls. And that time only those were available, and those were very expensive and rear (even today). And Vermeer was far not that rich as Queen Elizabeth the first or any other other royals.
The girl in the painting has a beautiful face.
Much prefer this to the Mona Lisa, which has benefited from a powerful publicity campaign by the French (as did Rodin). This pic is much freer, with movement and lighting beyond description. The Mona is a picture of a fat smug frump. This pic is of a lovely young girl, radiating from the canvas. Wish I was in Amsterdam today - 28 Vermeers on view. THAT would be an afternoon to remember.
I Think this girl whith earring is he’s daughter. There is many paintings who are same lovely Ladies. Wife and daughter’s ❤ There is so warm and intimate atmosphere whit this paintings ❤❤
IT IS ABOUT THE LIGHT< THE LIGHT< HIS USE OF LIGHT ON SUBJECT LIGHT& LIGHT &LIGHT
I saw this at The Legion of Honor SF some time ago
Someone is trying to make Carel Fabritius famous, is what this video is all about
their styles are quite different from each other.
they don't talk about, his camera obscura, and why all his painting are the same size ,same setting, same room, lol hi had an old skool canon 2600 lol
albert speer they are not the same size nor the same setting
Are you suggesting he invented color photography in the 1600s? I mean, its clearly not true, but even if it was, that would be damned impressive in and of itself.
Yes, trade was enormous, thanks to the Americas, the Orient, and Africa!!...................
Pearl.
If you compare this video with ones by Great Art Explained you wonder how they can do so incredibly bad compared to that single person.
She says: "I dont want you, but I want that you want me".
re "quite extraordinary, actually" by Liz Rideal. Perhaps this lady does not realise that the Dutch Republic at that time was the richest country in the world, in an absolute sense in terms of money and therefore also in a relative sense )per capita). She is English and pretends to not know that before the English got their king from Holland in 1688 at the Glorious Revolution, the Dutch reigned supreme in trade and sea battles. This immense wealth gave rise to all these great artists. Read "The Embarrassment of Riches" by the eminent Cambridge historian Simon Schama. He describes its wealth and gives quotes of Samuel Pepys about it. E.g. Pepys complained that just one ship of the yearly fleet of over 280 ships of the line that sailed back from the Far East to Holland, contained enough wealth to finance the whole English fleet and then some. Even today, English hate that kind of fact and prefer to not know such embarrassing contexts.
Triest om te gaan lopen opscheppen over iets van 400÷ jaar geleden
She "pretends?" She was not delivering a history of Dutch culture otherwise she would have mentioned the Dutch colonisation and genocides in Indonesia and cowardice in Srebrenica.
@@Longtack55 All European colonizers committed atrocities and attempted genocide on the colonized. Why virtue signal about it when you're no doubt a descendant who benefited from their colonial expansion
@@Longtack55 -There is NO nation in history or currently in existence that has not committed atrocities and genocide. The inevitable result of the natural man behaving exactly as described by the apostle Paul in the New Testament. Only the salvation offered to you by Jesus Christ, with the indwelling Holy Spirit, can change the natural man into the supernatural man-and it can take a lifetime for you to become perfected into the image of Jesus Christ. (Personally, will need a 1,000 years at least.)
@@thominaduncanson7596 Psalms 137:9 Read your babble bibble.
How can a big round metal ear-ring with a reflection in it be seen as a pearl? Look at the eye. Look at the ear-ring. A glint on a larger object.
Agree, some speculate that it is metal.
@@Longtack55 Thank you. Pearl does 'sound' so much more delicate though...
She makes me think of the mysterious “Afghan girl," whose piercing green eyes captivated the world in 1985, now found again.
Vermeer...so under-rated for so many years......glad people are finally opening their eyes. To hell with "Banksy" and his tripe.....
Vermeer isn't underrated at all.
@@demi3115 I don't know...no one ever seems to talk about him as much. Just my opinion.
The bgm scared me…
Hi! I don't know if anyone can help me, but I'll try: I'm doing a university exam, and part of this exam consists in subtitling a video. I choose this video, and I translated in italian the first seven minutes.. I only had one problem: the man talking at 1:34 what does he say? "we're talking about this tiny little OVARY" ?! what does it mean? Because I tried to search on internet, but I can't find it anywhere.. I've neved heard it. Can you please spell me what he says?
thank you very much!
It's a funky pronunciation of the french "ouvre", meaning body of work. No problem!
@@danieltorrez4993 THANK YOU SOOO MUCCHHH!!!
ironically, vermeer was the most brilliant out of his contemporaries. his skill eclipses them all.
9:15
They discovered GPS coordinates in the painting's EXIF data ?
I always thought the girl looked as if she was anticipating a kiss or a flirtation.
So, apparently, did the screenplay writer for the movie.😉
@@Jerry-sy8rd wut?
I have always wondered why people think the model in this painting is wearing a pearl earing. First, has anybody ever seen a real pearl which is as unbelievably large as the one in the Vermeer painting. It's not a large pearl it's a giant pearl. Secondly, pearls can reflect light but they don't act as mirrors like the one in this painting does. In a good photo of the earing the bottom glint of the earing mirrors the slightly muted color of the collar the model is wearing and I'm pretty sure a pearl wouldn't do that. Maybe people just assume the earing is a pearl because Vermeer painted so many other pearls.
I prefer to call the Mona lisa - "The Girl with a pearl earring of the South" !
Delft in Vermeer's time could have used an airport.
Why would nobody mention that one pearl like that would have bought several houses in Vermeer's neighborhood free and clear at that time not to mention be named.
She married a cinematographer and lives in Echo Park.
LMAO
Creativity is dead. 2021
Is the Girl with the Pearl Earring breathing in, or breathing out?
I thought this was gonna be about the painting that was restored horribly, with the lady ending up looking like a potato
No, that was Jesus the potato....
1:08
So basically before discovering his signature on the painting it was worthless....and then suddenly become subject of interest taht clothing n blah blah..why you didn't notice before discovering his signature
Well, consider the fact that NONE of his paintings received attention and were considered next to worthless until the 19th century, long after he died. I mean, the fact of the matter is that no matter what the quality of a painting is, generally a big name needs to be tied to it for the work to have much value. That's just the way it is.
They don't mention his camera obscura! Lol or why all his paintings are the same size .same setting same room with next to the same window 😂
Why are you copying comments
...with the same chair...
Oh G!!! Y’all really don’t get it do ya🤣.
I’m grateful for the narrators but Great art explained site - focuses on the art work only - we never see the narrator, they interrupt the view of the painting and so detracts from the experience
The girl actually looks a little fearful to me.
Economy of brushstrokes.
Raised highlights.
I thin it was Maria Varmeer Vermeer's daughter she looks alot like the girl with the pearl earing
So is it The Girl with “The” Pearl Earring, or “A” Pearl Earring? Goes back and forth.