![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Beautifully written, mysterious, and almost unbearably poignant… Written with the precision and focus of an Old Master painting, Girl with a Pearl Earring is a vivid portrait of colorful seventeenth century Delft, as well as the hauntingly poignant story of one young girl’s rite of passage. Their growing intimacy sparks whispers and when Vermeer paints her wearing his wife’s pearl earrings, the gossip escalates into a full blown scandal that irrevocably changes Griet’s life. What no one expects is that Griet’s quiet manner, quick perceptions, and fascination with her master’s paintings will draw her inexorably into his world. She even feels able to handle his shrewd mother in law his restless, sensual wife and their jealous servant. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry, and the care of his six children. ![]() A beguiling story about artistic vision and sensual depth that eerily and eloquently re creates the feeling of the famous painting that inspired itIn seventeenth century Delft, there’s a strict social order rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant, master and servant and all know their place. ![]()
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