Girl With a Pearl Earring

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The painting was investigated by the scientists of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage and FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) Amsterdam. [16] Janssen, Joris (28 November 2014). "Curieuze ontdekking: Meisje met de parel heeft geen parel"[Curious discovery: Girl with a Pearl Earring has no pearl]. New Scientist (in Dutch) . Retrieved 8 December 2014.

Burlingame, Jon (7 January 2007). "Thinking in colors and textures, then writing in music". The New York Times . Retrieved 15 September 2013. Wollman Rusoff, Jane (9 January 2004). "Being the onscreen Vermeer". The Record. North Jersey Media Group. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014 . Retrieved 26 February 2014. (subscription required) I don’t paint, though I did take a painting class while writing this book so I could find out a little about how it’s done. I was absolutely awful at it, but I learned a lot. I also read about Vermeer’s painting technique, and spoke with the woman who restored the painting for the 1996 Vermeer exhibition. She was able to explain to me some of the finer details of how he painted. As for the paints and how they were made, I found some old books about making paints and learned from them. I also bought some linseed oil (which is mixed with pigment to make paint) and left the bottle open as I was writing so that I could smell what they would have smelled. a b "Hudson withdrawal scuppers British production". The Guardian. 18 September 2001 . Retrieved 1 December 2013. a b Jardine, Cassandra (9 September 2003). "I thought: 'Who's playing a prank?' ". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 23 February 2014.Forced by her parents to become a maid to the Vermeer household, Griet is saddened to learn of the assignment. Hearing the news that she will reside with them and only be allowed to return home to her own family on Sunday's is heart wrenching for her. Regardless of her feelings, she diligently begins preforming her assigned duties of boiling, scrubbing, wringing, hanging and ironing the unmanageable heaps of laundry from this large and growing family. While the enormous pots of water are set on the fire to boil to begin the tedious laundering process, Griet often gets an early start on other assigned duties so no time is wasted during her long and exhausting days. The casting of Griet was Webber's first major step, and led to interviews with 150 girls before Webber chose the 17-year-old actress Scarlett Johansson. He felt that she "just stood out. She had something distinctive about her." [17] Johansson seemed very modern to Webber, but he believed this was a positive attribute, realising "that what would work was to take this intelligent, zippy girl and repress all that". [8] The actress finished filming Lost in Translation immediately before arriving on set in Luxembourg, and consequently prepared little for the role. She considered the script "beautifully written" and the character "very touching", [20] but did not read the book because she thought it would be better to approach the story with a "clean slate." [8] [21]

Girl with a Pearl Earring” is a 17th-century oil painting by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It depicts a young woman wearing a blue and gold turban and a large pearl earring. Papamichael, Stella (July 2007). "Girl with a Pearl Earring DVD (2004)". BBC . Retrieved 22 February 2014. Variety staff (11 December 2004). " 'Head' of EFA class". Variety. Penske Business Media . Retrieved 15 September 2013. a b Gleiberman, Owen (3 December 2003). "Girl With a Pearl Earring Review". Entertainment Weekly. Time Warner . Retrieved 23 February 2014. Production [ edit ] Development [ edit ] Vermeer's original painting, Girl with a Pearl Earring from 1665

edition. 2003 Awards" (Press release). San Sebastián International Film Festival . Retrieved 16 September 2013. The soldier in The Procuress reminds me of Van Ruijven. One of the most interesting things about this painting is the precariously perched pitcher. It makes me so nervous that I want to reach into the painting and move it to somewhere safer. The work is oil on canvas and is 44.5cm (17.5in) high and 39cm (15in) wide. It is signed "IVMeer" but not dated. It is estimated to have been painted around 1665. [7]

Hetreed read the novel before its publication, and her husband's production company convinced Chevalier to sell the film rights. Initially, the production was to feature Kate Hudson as Griet with Mike Newell directing. Hudson withdrew shortly before filming began, however, and the film was placed in hiatus until the hire of Webber, who re-initiated the casting process.

This is not a true story. Most of the characters really lived and you can travel to the Netherlands and see the actual painting, but Chevalier's answer to all of the questions swirling around Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" are only creative speculations. Yet in the final analysis Chevalier achieves the ultimate level that author's aspire to when they tell such tales in that we wish that this was indeed a true story. Chevalier makes Griet as memorable as the painting she inspires in this 2000 novel.

Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 1999 historical novel written by Tracy Chevalier. Set in 17th century Delft, Holland, the novel was inspired by Delft school painter Johannes Vermeer's painting Girl with a Pearl Earring. Chevalier presents a fictional account of Vermeer, the model, and the painting. The novel was adapted into a 2003 film of the same name and a 2008 play. Sixteen-year-old Griet has to leave her family home in Delft in 1664 after her father is blinded in an accident. As a tile-painter, her father is a member of the artists’ guild, so employment is found for her as a maid in painter Johannes Vermeer's household. In the strictly stratified society of the time, this is a fall in status because of the bad reputation that maids have for stealing, spying and sleeping with their employers. A further complication is that the Vermeers belong to the grudgingly tolerated Catholic minority while Griet is a Protestant. At their home, she befriends the family's oldest daughter, Maertge, but is never on good terms with the spiteful Cornelia, a younger daughter who takes after her class-conscious mother, Catharina. Griet also finds it difficult to keep on the right side of Tanneke, the other house servant, who is moody and jealous. a b c d e f g h i j k l Grandon, Marisol (15 January 2004). " 'We didn't want the "Griet discovers her sexuality in front of the mirror" scene' ". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 21 February 2014.

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Costanzo Cahir, Linda (2006). Literature into Film: Theory and Practical Approaches. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-2597-6. MA in creative writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1994. There’s a lot of debate about whether or not you can be taught to write. Why doesn’t anyone ask that of professional singers, painters, dancers? That year forced me to write all the time and take it seriously. Lazzaro-Weis, Carol (2011). From Margins to Mainstream: Feminism and Fictional Modes in Italian Women's Writing. University of Pennsylvania. p.141. ISBN 9780812206708. An observant and deliberate painter, Vermeer produced only 36 known works in his lifetime, while many of his contemporaries completed hundreds. Like his peers, he mostly depicted scenes of ordinary life, later called “genre” painting, often of women at daily tasks. Notable examples included Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (c. 1657) and The Music Lesson (c. 1665). He occasionally signed his paintings. While Girl with a Pearl Earring bears “IVMeer,” it is undated. Historians believe Vermeer painted the small piece (17.52 × 15.35 inches [44.5 × 39 cm]) around 1665, during the period in which he executed a group of paintings with a shared pearl motif. When Vermeer takes Catharina’s jewelry and jewelry box to use as props for his latest work, she becomes upset over the idea of her things being left overnight in the studio with Griet. Cornelia hatches a plot to frame Griet for stealing Catharina’s tortoiseshell combs. But when Griet explains the situation to Vermeer, he sides with the maid. Griet’s evident importance to him softens Tanneke’s and Catherine’s mistreatment of her—after all, the whole household depends on his paintings for their support. But it also increases their resentment of her.