Vermeer

Girl with a Pearl Earring

The painter of silence. Only ~35 paintings survive, almost all small domestic interiors — a woman reading a letter, pouring milk, weighing gold — bathed in a cool, crystalline light that makes the ordinary sacred. The rarest and most precious body of work in Dutch painting.

Key works

• Girl with a Pearl Earring~1665— The Dutch Mona Lisa
  Mauritshuis, The Hague
• The Art of Painting~1666— A painter at work — allegory of art itself
  Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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