Girl with a Pearl Earring
Johannes Vermeer · 1665
Why it's great
A girl in a blue and yellow turban looks over her shoulder at us, with her lips slightly parted and a large pearl at her ear, against a dark background. Johannes Vermeer painted it in about 1665, and no one knows who she was. It is often called the Mona Lisa of the North.
Where to see it
📍 MauritshuisThe Hague, Netherlands
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Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter born in Delft in 1632. He painted calm scenes of women in sunlit rooms, with pearls, maps, letters and music, and made fewer than 40 paintings that we know of. He died in 1675, and he was almost forgotten until the 1800s.
