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pos: Girl with a Pearl Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring () is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is a "tronie" of a girl wearing a headscarf and a pearl earring. The painting has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902. In 2006, the Dutch public selected it as the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands. The painting is a tronie, the Dutch 17th-century description of a 'head' that was not meant to be a portrait. It depicts a European girl wearing an exotic dress, an oriental turban, and an

pos: Girl with a Pearl Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring () is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is a "tronie" of a girl wearing a headscarf and a pearl earring. The painting has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902. In 2006, the Dutch public selected it as the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands. The painting is a tronie, the Dutch 17th-century description of a 'head' that was not meant to be a portrait. It depicts a European girl wearing an exotic dress, an oriental turban, and an

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) does not object, and lets Griet depart. Later, Griet is visited by Vermeer's house cook Tanneke, who comes bearing her a gift: the blue headscarf she wore in the painting, wrapped around Catharina's pearl earrings. The film ends with a slow reveal of the real-life painting, "Girl with a Pearl Earring." The production of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" began in 1999, when screenwriter Olivia Hetreed gained access to Tracy Chevalier's novel Girl with a Pearl Earring shortly before its publication in August. The novel had not yet become a best-seller, but several groups were beginning to show interest. Hetreed

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring earring with bamboo earrings as a commentary on the lack of black figures in museums and galleries. His piece is titled "Girl with a Bamboo Earring". English street artist Banksy reproduced the painting as a mural in Bristol, incorporating an alarm box in place of the pearl earring and calling the artwork "Girl with a Pierced Eardrum". Girl with a Pearl Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring () is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is a "tronie" of a girl wearing a headscarf and a pearl earring. The painting has been in the collection

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 romantic drama film directed by Peter Webber. The screenplay was adapted by screenwriter Olivia Hetreed, based on the novel "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier. Scarlett Johansson stars as Griet, a young 17th-century servant in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by Colin Firth) at the time he painted "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (1665) in the city of Delft in Holland. Other cast members include Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy, and Judy Parfitt. Hetreed read the novel before its publication, and

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) Girl with a Pearl Earring (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 local painter Johannes Vermeer's "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. Tracy Chevalier's inspiration for the novel was a poster of Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring". She had bought the poster as a nineteen-year-old and it hung wherever she lived for

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (soundtrack) Girl with a Pearl Earring (soundtrack) Girl with a Pearl Earring: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2003 film "Girl with a Pearl Earring" starring Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy and Judy Parfitt. It was composed by French film composer Alexandre Desplat. Desplat was a veteran of primarily French films since the early 1990s. His work for "Girl with a Pearl Earring" raised his international profile as his breakout score in Hollywood; it led to a prominent career composing major films like "The King's Speech" (2010) and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014). The

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (soundtrack) to exist". Danny Graydon from "Empire" called the score "a supremely elegant work that should gain him much-deserved attention on the international stage". Bibliography Girl with a Pearl Earring (soundtrack) Girl with a Pearl Earring: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2003 film "Girl with a Pearl Earring" starring Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy and Judy Parfitt. It was composed by French film composer Alexandre Desplat. Desplat was a veteran of primarily French films since the early 1990s. His work for "Girl with a Pearl Earring" raised his international profile as his breakout

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) as Vermeer refuses to explicate the situations in his paintings. The film's scenarios may be unsurprising, but Webber's solemn evocation of art in a grey world gives his story an apt, unspoken gravity." Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 romantic drama film directed by Peter Webber. The screenplay was adapted by screenwriter Olivia Hetreed, based on the novel "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier. Scarlett Johansson stars as Griet, a young 17th-century servant in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by Colin Firth) at the time he

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) reaction to it in the present. Thus it was noted that the 2001 exhibition of “Vermeer and the Delft School” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York “attracted almost twice the number of visitors than the Vermeer exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1996. For Walter Liedtke, the gallery's curator of European paintings, the success of [the exhibition] was due, at least in part, to Chevalier's novel.” Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 1999 historical novel written by Tracy Chevalier. Set in 17th century Delft, Holland,

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (soundtrack) forms, including solo piano and violin. Elsewhere, Desplat creates a captivating atmosphere of cautious emotion and wonderment, the true highlight being 'Colour In The Clouds', so simply majestic that it really captures the heart of the story". "Girl with a Pearl Earring" was Deplat's breakout score in Hollywood, despite it being his 50th production as composer. Desplat had contributed musical scores to primarily French films since the early 1990s but his score for "Girl with a Pearl Earring" raised his international profile, leading to a prominent career composing major films such as "The King's Speech" (2010), "Godzilla" (2014), and "The

neg: Peter Webber where he took up the post of Creative Director at Qatar National Day for two years. During this time he developed their film programme. While in Qatar he also executive produced several documentary films including Sarajevo Film Festival winner "For the Love of Books", which was also the recipient of a Grierson Award in 2012 for Best Historical Documentary. Peter Webber Peter Webber (born 1968) is a British director who is best known for his debut feature film "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "Hannibal Rising". "Girl with a Pearl Earring", starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth, marked Webber's feature

neg: Girl with a Flute The bluegreen jacket with the fur lining is also used in " Woman Holding a Balance" and "The Concert" and is listed as a 'oude groene false mantel met een witte bonte kant' in Vermeer's inventory after his death. Just like "Girl with a Red Hat" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring" the model wears a glass, lacquered pearl earring. "Girl with a Flute " is a so-called "tronie", a study of a remarkable facial expression or a stock character in costume. This was a popular genre in Dutch Golden Age painting. "Tronies" were produced for the mass market, not

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring improbably large pearl earring. In 2014, Dutch astrophysicist Vincent Icke raised doubts about the material of the earring and argued that it looks more like polished tin than pearl on the grounds of the specular reflection, the pear shape and the large size of the earring. The work is oil on canvas and is high and wide. It is signed "IVMeer" but not dated. It is estimated to have been painted around 1665. After the most recent restoration of the painting in 1994, the subtle colour scheme and the intimacy of the girl's gaze toward the viewer have been greatly

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) anticipating that the match will be to their benefit. Apart from "Girl with a Pearl Earring" itself, in which Griet is the sitter, several more of Vermeer’s paintings feature in Chevalier’s novel. At the very start, "View of Delft" is recalled by Griet’s father. When Griet enters the household, Vermeer is working on "Woman with a Pearl Necklace" and Tanneke mentions soon after that she had been Vermeer’s model for "The Milkmaid". His next subject is "Woman with a Water Jug", for which the baker’s daughter models. Griet describes the painting to her father and also witnesses its creation in

neg: Study of a Young Woman Study of a Young Woman Study of a Young Woman (also known as Portrait of a Young Woman, or Girl with a Veil) is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, completed between 1665 and 1667, and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The painting was painted around the same time as the better-known "Girl with a Pearl Earring", and has a near-identical size. Because of this, and its proximity in tone and composition, it is sometimes considered to be either a variant or pendant painting (counterpart) of "Girl with a Pearl Earring". The subjects of

neg: The Concert (Vermeer) subject of a 1964 episode of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" called "Ten Minutes from Now". Following the real theft, the stolen painting has figured in various TV and animated series as well as two novels: "An Object of Beauty" by Steve Martin (2010) and "The Medusa Plot" by Gordon Korman (2011). In Tracy Chevalier’s historical novel "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (1999), Vermeer paints "The Concert" at the same time that he is painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring", and the episode is also repeated in the 2003 film made from it. The Concert (Vermeer) The Concert ( 1664) is

neg: Peter Webber Peter Webber Peter Webber (born 1968) is a British director who is best known for his debut feature film "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "Hannibal Rising". "Girl with a Pearl Earring", starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth, marked Webber's feature film debut. The film has received numerous accolades, including three Academy Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, and 10 BAFTA Award nominations. Dino De Laurentiis tapped Webber to direct "Hannibal Rising". Based on Thomas Harris' book of the same name, and starring Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li and Rhys Ifans, this prequel depicts a young Hannibal Lecter as he gradually

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) an average score of 6.9/10. The website reported the critical consensus as visually arresting, but the story could be told with a bit more energy." Critical reception of "Girl With a Pearl Earring" was mixed, with reviewers positively emphasising the film's visuals and performances while questioning elements of its story. Historian Alex von Tunzelmann, writing for "The Guardian", praised the film for its "sumptuous design and incredible Vermeerish appearance" but felt that "it's a bit too much like watching paint dry." In "The Observer", Philip French referred to the film as "quiet, intelligent and well-acted" and believed that "most people

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) of £384,498 from 106 cinemas. In the UK and Ireland, the film finished in 14th place for the year with a total box office gross of £3.84 million. It had a worldwide gross of $31,466,789. In the US, the "Girl With a Pearl Earring" DVD was released on 4 May 2004 by Lions Gate. The Region 2 DVD's release on 31 May 2004 included audio commentaries from Webber, Paterson, Hetreed, and Chevalier; a featurette on "The Art of Filmmaking"; and eight deleted scenes. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes calculated a 72% approval rating based on reviews from 175 critics, with

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) them." "Girl With a Pearl Earring"s world premiere occurred at the Telluride Film Festival on 31 August 2003. In North America it was distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment. The film was limited in release to seven cinemas on 12 December 2003, landing in 32nd place for the week with $89,472. Lions Gate slowly increased its release to a peak of 402 cinemas by 6 February 2004. Its total domestic gross was $11,670,971. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 16 January 2004 by Pathé Films. In its opening week, the film finished in tenth place with a total

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) Elvis Mitchell of "The New York Times" called the film an "earnest, obvious melodrama with no soul, filled with the longing silences that come after a sigh." Mitchell did however laud its cinematography, production design, and musical score, as did the "Film Journal International"s Erica Abeel. Despite praising its visuals, Abeel criticized "Girl with a Pearl Earring" for being "a chick flick dressed up in Old Master clothes" and for failing "to render Griet's growing artistic sensibility dramatically credible." She cited its melodramatic villains as another failing, but concluded that it was "to Johansson's credit that she alone pulls something

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) plausible out of her character." Sandra Hall of "The Sydney Morning Herald" praised Webber's ability to "build individual moments [such as] the crackle of a bed-sheet which has grown an ice overcoat after being hung out to dry in the wintry air", but opined that he failed to "invest these elegant reproductions of the art of the period with the emotional charge you've been set up to expect." Griet and Vermeer's relationship, Hall wrote, lacked "the sense of two people breathing easily in one another's company." Owen Gleiberman, writing for "Entertainment Weekly", remarked that "Girl with a Pearl Earring" "brings

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) focused the story on the relationship between Griet and Vermeer, deciding what other storylines were "distracting and had to be jettisoned. Before editing, there was great stuff there, but Peter was fantastically ruthless." Changes from the novel did not bother Chevalier, who felt that as a result the film gained "a focused, driven plot and a sumptuous visual feast." According to Webber, "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is "more than just a quaint little film about art" but is concerned with themes of money, sex, repression, obsession, power, and the human heart. Laura M. Sager Eidt in her book, "Writing

neg: Study of a Young Woman used a live model but, as with "Girl with a Pearl Earring", did not create the work as a portrait, but as a "tronie", a Dutch word meaning "visage" or "expression", a type of Dutch 17th-century picture appreciated for its "unusual costumes, intriguing physiognomies, suggestion of personality, and demonstration of artistic skill". The picture encourages the viewer to be curious about the young woman's thoughts, feelings, or character, something typical in many of Vermeer's paintings. "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "Portrait of a Young Woman" are unusual for Vermeer in that they lack his usual rich background; instead the

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) not rich. Van Straalen created more elaborate costumes for Wilkinson, as van Ruijven was to her "a peacock strutting around with his money." Make-up and hair designer Jenny Shircore desired that Griet appear without make-up, so Johansson was given very little; rather, Shircore focused on maintaining the actress' skin as "milky, thick and creamy ," and bleached her eyebrows. They gave Davis as Catharina a "very simple Dutch hairstyle", which they learned from studying drawings and prints of the period. The musical score for "Girl with a Pearl Earring" was written by the French composer Alexandre Desplat. Webber decided to

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) [was] determined to make something quite different from that..." Cinematographer Eduardo Serra used distinctive lighting and colour schemes similar to Vermeer's paintings. Released on 12 December 2003 in North America and on 16 January 2004 in the United Kingdom, "Girl with a Pearl Earring" earned a worldwide gross of $31.4 million. It garnered a mostly positive critical reception, with a 72% approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes. Critics generally applauded the film's visuals and performances while questioning elements of its story. The film was subsequently nominated for ten British Academy Film Awards, three Academy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Griet

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) and Filming the Painting: Ekphrasis in Literature and Film", asserts that the film deviates significantly from the source material and emphasises a "socio-political dimension that is subtler in the novel." "Girl with a Pearl Earring", Sager Eidt says, "shifts its focus from a young girl's evolving consciousness to the class and power relations in the story." In his work, "Film England: Culturally English Filmmaking Since the 1990s", author Andrew Higson notes that the film overcomes the novel's "subjective narration" device by having the camera stay fixed on Griet for much of the film. But, Higson says, "no effort is made

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (soundtrack) soundtrack received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. The musical score to the film "Girl with a Pearl Earring" was written by the French composer Alexandre Desplat. Desplat had to work quickly when composing his score, and sought to avoid creating "a period, baroque score", as he felt that genre could "be a trap". According to Desplat, the film's director Peter Webber wished to avoid making a period film, believing the story was timeless. Desplat thought the use of choirs and baroque-like instrumentations "seemed too obvious" for the

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) Stanley Kubrick period drama "Barry Lyndon", but knew that "Girl With a Pearl Earring" would be different; unlike the former film's "elaborate and expensive set pieces", Webber's production was to be "about the intimate relationships within a single household." He was not seeking to create a historically accurate biographical film of Vermeer; Webber sought to direct a period film that avoided being "overly slavish" to characteristics of the genre, desiring instead to "bring the film to life" and have viewers "be able almost to smell the meat in the market." Webber employed little dialogue and drew inspiration from the "quiet,

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring a Pearl Earring" (1999), fictionalized the circumstances of the painting's creation. There, Vermeer becomes close to a servant named Griet whom he uses as an assistant and has sit for him as a model while wearing his wife's earrings. The novel also inspired the 2003 film and 2008 play of the same name. The painting also appears in the 2007 film "St Trinian's", when a group of unruly schoolgirls steal it to raise funds to save their school. Ethiopian American artist, Awol Erizku recreated the painting as a print in 2009, centering a young black woman and replacing the pearl

neg: Pride one of a reclining Venus. In his table of the seven deadly sins, Hieronymus Bosch depicts a bourgeois woman admiring herself in a mirror held up by a devil. Behind her is an open jewelry box. A painting attributed to Nicolas Tournier, which hangs in the Ashmolean Museum, is "An Allegory of Justice and Vanity". A young woman holds a balance, symbolizing justice; she does not look at the mirror or the skull on the table before her. Vermeer's famous painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is sometimes believed to depict the sin of vanity, as the young girl has

neg: Vanity of a reclining Venus. In his table of the Seven deadly sins, Hieronymus Bosch depicts a bourgeois woman admiring herself in a mirror held up by a devil; behind her is an open jewelry box. A painting attributed to Nicolas Tournier, which hangs in the Ashmolean Museum, is "An Allegory of Justice and Vanity": a young woman holds a balance, symbolizing justice; she does not look at the mirror or the skull on the table before her. Johannes Vermeer's painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is sometimes believed to depict the sin of vanity, because the young girl has adorned

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) (Scarlett Johansson) is a shy girl living in the Dutch Republic in 1665. Her father, a Delftware painter, has recently gone blind, rendering him unable to work and putting his family in a precarious financial situation. To help matters, Griet is sent to work as a maid in the household of famed painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth). Griet works hard, almost wordlessly, in the lowest position in a harsh hierarchy. She does her best to adjust, despite the unkind treatment from Vermeer's daughter Cornelia. While she is on a routine shopping trip outside the house, a butcher's son, Pieter (Cillian

neg: Caroline Shotton Having settled upon the cow motif, she then formulated puns befitting her chosen subjects; whereby "Mona Lisa" became "Moo"-na Lisa. Other reinterpreted masterpieces include "Cow with the Pearl Earring", after Vermeer's "Girl with the Pearl Earring", and "Persistence of Moomery" after Salvador Dalí's "Persistence of Memory". Her popularity grew after publishing "The Great Moosters" as a collection of limited-edition prints. Painting and travelling as a working freelancer was too much of a challenge as a new mother, so Shotton began approaching publishing companies. The artist finally signed a contract with Washington Green Fine Art Publishers. Washington Green were quick to

neg: The Second Mrs Kong opera took place in 1996 in Vienna. The London premiere of the work was in November 2004, as part of the 70th birthday concerts for Birtwistle. The setting is the World of Shadows, a realm of the dead where historical people and fictional characters can intermingle. Anubis transports the dead to the World of Shadows. The dead are permitted to relive selected moments from their past. One such moment is when Vermeer paints Pearl as the subject of his painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Pearl first learns of the existence of the mythical giant ape King Kong after she

neg: Awol Erizku After college, he worked under photographers David LaChapelle, Lorna Simpson, Margaret Morton, and thristine Osinski. He did commercial as well as documentary photography for rap group A$AP Mob. Erizku's first solo show, "Black and Gold," was shown at New York's Hasted-Kraeutler gallery in 2012. The show featured a series of photo portraits depicting black figures cast within classic art-historical contexts. The most famous of the works was "Girl with a Bamboo Earring," visually recalling Johannes Vermeer's famous "Girl with a Pearl Earring" with a Black model as its focus. In 2014, Erizku returned to the Hasted-Kraeutler gallery space with "The

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) loved the character of Griet and "her determination to be free in a world where that was almost impossible for a girl from her background." Anand Tucker and Hetreed's husband Andy Paterson – both producers with the small British studio Archer Street Films – approached the novel's author, Tracy Chevalier, for a film adaptation. Chevalier agreed, believing that a British studio would help resist Hollywood's urge "to sex up the film." She stipulated that their adaptation avoid having the main characters consummate their relationship. Paterson and Tucker promised to "replicate the 'emotional truth' of the story [...]," and Chevalier did

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) work at the Vermeers', Pieter, the son of the family butcher at the meat market, starts courting Griet. She has been strictly brought up and does not welcome this at first, but tolerates his interest because it is of advantage to her impoverished parents. Griet is increasingly fascinated by Vermeer's paintings. Vermeer discovers that Griet has an eye for art and secretly asks her to run errands and perform tasks for him, such as mixing his paints and acting as a substitute model. Griet arouses the suspicions of Catharina, but Vermeer's mother-in-law, Maria Thins, recognizes Griet's presence as a steadying

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) to actually render her point of view as the point of view of the film or the spectator." Vermeer channels Griet's sexual awakening into his painting, with the piercing of her ear and his directives to her posing being inherently sexual. In the opinion of psychologist Rosemary Rizq, the pearl Griet dons is a metaphor, something which normally would convey wealth and status. But, when worn by Griet the pearl is also a directive to the audience to look at the "psychological potential within" her erotic, unconsummated bond with Vermeer, unclear up to that point if it is real or

neg: Girl sympathetic portraits of young girls who were daughters of royalty. Sappho's poetry carries love poems addressed to girls. In Europe, some early paintings featuring girls were Petrus Christus' "Portrait of a Young Girl" (about 1460), Juan de Flandes' "Portrait of a Young Girl" (about 1505), Frans Hals' "" in 1620, Diego Velázquez' "Las Meninas" in 1656, Jan Steen's "The Feast of St. Nicolas" (about 1660) and Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" along with "". Later paintings of girls include Albert Anker's portrait of a "" and Camille Pissarro's 1883 "". Mary Cassatt painted many famous Impressionist works that

neg: Eduardo de Valfierno a "Mr. Morgan". Holmes's interference with his plans convinces Moriarty that the detective must be eliminated. This con was mentioned in "Leverage" episode "The Two Live Crew Job", where a rival crew steals a painting that the Leverage Crew was looking for. Parker claims that this ""Mona Lisa" Variant" was the first con she learned and explains it for the viewing audience. In the film "St Trinian's" (2007), the girls use a similar scheme with the painting Girl with a Pearl Earring: They make a copy, "borrow" the original, sell the copy for £500 000, return the original (claiming to

neg: Anna Popplewell in the films "The Little Vampire" (2000) and "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (2003), with Scarlett Johansson. In 2001, she appeared as Victoria in the BBC serial "Love in a Cold Climate". Her first major role was in the film "" (2005) where she played Susan Pevensie. She has a phobia of mice, which required a double to do part of her scene at the Stone Table in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe". She reprised her role in the sequel, "", in which she acted with William Moseley, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley and Ben Barnes. The film opened

neg: Colin Firth impact at the box office. Firth played the painter Johannes Vermeer opposite Scarlett Johansson in the 2003 release "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Some critics praised the film's gentle subtlety and sumptuous visuals, whilst others found it almost too restrained, tedious and bereft of emotion. Nevertheless, the film received mostly favorable reviews, was moderately successful with audiences and earned several awards and nominations. In 2005, Firth appeared in "Nanny McPhee" with Emma Thompson, a rare venture for Firth into the fantasy genre. Also in 2005, he appeared in "Where the Truth Lies", a return to some of Firth's darker, more

neg: Tracy Chevalier Ambassador for the Woodland Trust, where her husband serves as a member of the board of directors. Tracy Chevalier Tracy Rose Chevalier, (born October 19, 1962) is an American-British historical novelist. She has written eight novels. She is best known for her second novel, "Girl with a Pearl Earring", which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth. Tracy Chevalier was born on October 19, 1962, in Washington, D.C. She is the daughter of Douglas and Helen (née Werner) Chevalier. Her father was a photographer who worked with "The Washington Post" for more than 30 years.

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) later interview that "it evolves and it's much more flowing with a very gentle theme that's haunting." The score, his career breakthrough, gained him international attention and garnered him further film projects. The soundtrack was released in 2004; it earned a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, helping increase Desplat's name recognition in Hollywood. Desplat's work also garnered positive reviews. "The New York Times" described it as a " gorgeous score ...[which] brushes in a haunted gloom that gives the picture life where none seems to exist," whilst "Boston.com" said it "burbles with elegant baroque minimalism."

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring guilders with a thirty cents buyer's premium (around €24 at current purchasing power). At the time, it was in poor condition. Des Tombe had no heirs and donated this and other paintings to the Mauritshuis in 1902. The painting was exhibited as part of a Vermeer show at the National Gallery in Washington DC, in 1965-66. In 2012, as part of a traveling exhibition while the Mauritshuis was being renovated and expanded, the painting was exhibited in Japan at the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, and in 2013–2014 the United States, where it was shown at the High Museum

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) the reader's imagination. And Vermeer's acknowledgment of his debt to her, revealed in the denouement, is a blatant nod to sentimentality”. Details were also called into question by the art historian Gary Schwarz, particularly the simplistic portrayal of the Catholic/Protestant division in a country where the differences between Protestants were equally important. As well as the high English-language sales, the novel’s popularity has seen it translated into most European languages and in Asia into Turkish, Georgian, Persian, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese and Korean. Rather than writing a story of Vermeer having an illicit relationship with the household maid, Chevalier builds

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) could have as a maid. She therefore decides to pawn the earrings and pay the fifteen guilders owed to her husband from the price. The novel was published in Britain in 1999 and a year later in the United States, where it became a "New York Times" bestseller, Though it was nominated for several fiction prizes, it won only the Barnes & Noble Discover Award in 2000 and the 2001 Alex Award for books that have special appeal to young adults. In 2001 Plume released the U.S. paperback edition with an initial print-run of 120,000 copies; a year later the

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) 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. Griet lives for two years at her employers’ and is only allowed to visit her home on Sundays, where the family circle is breaking up. Her younger brother Frans is apprenticed outside and eventually her younger sister Agnes dies of the plague. But during the early months of her

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) hire Desplat after hearing a score he had composed for a Jacques Audiard film. Webber explained, "He had a sense of restraint and a sense of lyricism that I liked. I remember the first time I saw the cue where Griet opens the shutters. He was really describing what the light was doing, articulating that in a musical sphere." Desplat was then known primarily for scoring films in his native language. The score employs strings, piano, and woodwinds, with a central theme featuring a variety of instrumental forms. Desplat created a melody that recurs throughout the film, stating in a

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (soundtrack) Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014). The album was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. In a 2004 interview, the film's director, Peter Webber commented that Desplat "has done a fantastic job. He's quite rightly been nominated for a Golden Globe. Music is a difficult trick to pull off, because the wrong score could have dragged this film down. Alexander did the opposite". Writing for "The New York Times", Elvis Mitchell described the score as "gorgeous" which "brushes in a haunted gloom that gives the picture life where none seems

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) project to work on his 2002 film "Maid in Manhattan". Due to this incident, "The Guardian" reported that it "now seems unlikely that the film will ever be made." Production started again later that year when the producers hired the relatively unknown British television director Peter Webber to head the project, despite his not having directed a feature film before. Tucker and Paterson already knew Webber from several earlier projects; the director discovered the project by accident after visiting their office, where he noticed a poster of Vermeer's work and began discussing it. Webber read the script and described it

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) embrace and make love in a barn, where Pieter proposes marriage, but Griet unexpectedly leaves. She then returns the earrings to Catharina's mother. Later, Catharina flies into a rage upon discovering Griet used her earrings. She storms into the studio, accuses her mother of complicity, and demands Vermeer show her the commissioned portrait. Offended by the intimate nature of the painting, Catharina dismisses it as "obscene," and tearfully asks why Vermeer won't paint her. When Vermeer responds, "Because you don't understand," she tries but fails to destroy the painting. She then banishes Griet from the house forever, to which Vermeer

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) goal was to "reflect that quiet, sober, almost moralizing ethos that you see in Dutch paintings." They built Vermeer's house on one of Luxembourg's largest film soundstages, a three-story set where they designed rooms that were meant to convey a lack of privacy. According to van Os, the film was about "being observed," so they intended Griet to always feel that she was being watched. In addition, they built two other interior sets to represent the homes of Griet and van Ruijven – Griet's home possessed Calvinistic characteristics while van Ruijven's contained mounted animals to reflect his "predatory nature." The

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) narration rather than commented on overtly - is how women of that time, in Lisa Fletcher’s words, “did not own their bodies, but were the possessions first of their parents, then of their employers, and finally of their husbands. As the novel progresses, Griet becomes increasingly aware that she is ‘for sale’". She is given no choice by her parents over whether or where she will work. Van Ruijven and other characters assume she is sexually available simply because she is an unchaperoned maid. And once Pieter becomes Griet’s accepted suitor, her parents leave her alone to his physical advances,

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) deal with her growing fascination with Vermeer and his talent,and subsequently fend off Van Ruijven, who attempts to rape her in the courtyard. Later, when Catharina is out for the day, her mother hands Griet her daughter's pearl earrings, and asks Vermeer to finish the painting. At the final painting session, Vermeer pierces Griet's left earlobe so she can wear one of the earrings for the portrait. The tension heightens considerably when Griet reacts to the pain, and Vermeer tenderly caresses her face. Griet then runs to Pieter to be consoled, and presumably distracted from her thoughts of Vermeer. They

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) Vermeer are therefore reluctant to fulfil this request and eventually Vermeer comes up with a compromise. Van Ruijven will be painted with members of his own family and Vermeer will paint a portrait of Griet by herself which is to be sold to van Ruijven. For the painting, he forces her to pierce her ears and wear his wife's pearl earrings without her permission. Cornelia seizes the chance to let Catharina discover this and in the resulting scandal Vermeer remains silent and Griet is forced to leave. Ten years later, long after Griet has married Pieter and settled into life

neg: Woman with a Pearl Necklace of yellow and blue tones, the depiction of women, the use of wall coverings (maps, artworks, etc.), depiction of domestic tools, heavy drapery, light angles from the left, as well as prominent and telling facial expressions, and narrative-like objects. These touches allowed Vermeer to idealize his depiction of Dutch women and their values. Some of his most notable works include "Girl with a Pearl Earring", "The Love Letter", and "The Art of Painting", all of which share the aforementioned qualities of a true Vermeer painting. Painted in 1664, this 21 5/8 X 17 ¾ inch scene depicts a young Dutch

neg: Tronie paintings were described as "tronies" in the Dissius auction of 1696, perhaps including the "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and the Washington "". Frans Hals also painted a number of tronies, which are now among his best-known works, including the two tronies known as "Malle Babbe" and the "Gypsy Girl" (see gallery). Adriaen Brouwer was one of the most successful practitioners of the genre as he had a talent for expressiveness. His work gave a face to lower-class figures by infusing their images with recognizable and vividly expressed human emotions—anger, joy, pain, and pleasure. His "Youth Making a Face" (c.

neg: Farewell, My Queen on Metacritic. Several reviewers compared the film to Sofia Coppola's 2006 production, "Marie Antoinette". IndieWire's Anne Thompson believed it was "an intimate and sexy period spectacle that takes us backstage at Versailles and into territory Sofia Coppola was not willing to go." Deborah Young of "The Hollywood Reporter" called "Farewell, My Queen" a "visual joy, even while its tale of a lower class girl at court infatuated with the Queen of France labors to say something relevant. Though director Benoit Jacquot opts for the grand European style of "Girl With a Pearl Earring" rather than a modernist rereading à la

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) as a mother and butcher's wife, she is called back to the house following Vermeer's death. Griet assumes that Vermeer's widow wishes to settle the household's unpaid butcher’s bill. There Griet learns that Vermeer had asked for her painting to be hung in the room as he was dying. In addition, though the family is now poorer, Vermeer's will has included a request that Griet receive the pearl earrings that she wore when he painted her, which Van Leeuwenhoek forces Catharina to hand over. Griet realizes, however, that she could no more wear them as a butcher's wife than she

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) novels published in 1999 which also deal with 17th century Dutch painting. Susan Vreeland’s "Girl in Hyacinth Blue" is a set of stories centred upon a supposedly lost painting by Vermeer; and Katharine Weber’s "The Music Lesson" deals with the stolen Vermeer painting of that title. Deborah Moggach’s "Tulip Fever", on the other hand, is set in Amsterdam and also deals with the love between a painter and his subject. In addition, it too started from an attempt to decipher the enigmatic look of the sitter in a painting of the period. Another theme - that is demonstrated in the

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) 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." 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", but did not read the book because she thought it would be better to approach the story with a "clean slate." After the hiring of Johansson, other major casting decisions quickly followed, beginning with the addition of English actor

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring bone black, weld (luteolin, reseda luteola), chalk, small amounts of red ochre, and indigo. The face and draperies were painted mainly using ochres, natural ultramarine, bone black, charcoal black and lead white. In February-March 2018 an international team of art experts spent two weeks studying the painting in a specially constructed glass workshop in the museum, open to observation by the public. The non-invasive research project included removing the work from its frame for study with microscopes, X-ray equipment and a special scanner to learn more about the methods and materials used by Vermeer. Tracy Chevalier's historical novel, "Girl with

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) closer detail now that she is helping in the studio. Van Ruijven’s wife (Maria de Knuijt) later models for "A Lady Writing a Letter". During this episode it is recalled that she had previously appeared in "Woman with a Lute" and that her husband had seduced the maid who sat for "The Girl with the Wine Glass". Van Ruijven himself, a sister and a daughter, figure in "The Concert", which is conceived of as a successor to "The Music Lesson". A final painting, "The Procuress", is not Vermeer’s painting of that title but a genre piece by Dirck van Baburen

neg: Joanna Scanlan columns, the film fills in the gap between the last film and her subsequent book "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy". Directed by Sharon Maguire ("Bridget Jones's Diary"), the film finds Bridget unexpectedly expecting. Other film credits include Scanlan's performance as Charles Dicken's wife in Ralph Fiennes directed "The Invisible Woman", "Get Santa", "Testament of Youth", "In the Loop", "The Bad Education Movie", "The Other Boleyn Girl", "Stardust", "Notes on a Scandal" and "Girl With A Pearl Earring" and "Kinky Boots". Additional television credits include "Death Comes To Pemberley", "Fungus the Bogeyman", "Mapp and Lucia", "Heading Out", "Stella", "Doc Martin"

neg: Michiel Sweerts some five years later. The young girls in both compositions are depicted with a combination of realism and idealisation. There are important differences between the two works. Vermeer's composition is more compact, his light reflections are more subtle and Vermeer uses yellow and blue tones in a more daring manner. Vermeer further shows the young girl wearing an exotic turban and a pearl earring that appears too big to be real. Sweerts prefers to show the girl as a simple maidservant without frills. Some of Sweerts' tronies can be traced back to the "low life" studies of characters in the

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) not its visuals. In desiring to avoid stereotypes of the costume drama, Webber costumed his actors in simple outfits he termed "period Prada," rather than use the ruffles and baggy costumes common for the era. The intent was to "take the real clothes from the period and reduce them to their essence." Costume designer Dien van Straalen explored London and Holland markets in search for period fabrics, including curtains and slipcovers. For Griet, van Straalen employed "pale colors for Scarlett Johansson to give her the drab look of a poor servant girl." Firth was also outfitted simply, as Vermeer was

neg: Color wheel theory of love is the possibility of the decay in attraction, and the danger of living in a fantasy world. In its extreme, eros can resemble naïveté. A partner not as sexually inclined may also feel one's physical body being taken for granted and may perceive the eros lover as looking for carnal gratification. Examples of eros may be seen in movies including "The Blue Lagoon", "Return to the Blue Lagoon", "Pretty Woman", "Working Girl", and "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Lee's recognizable traits: Ludus, meaning "game" in Latin, is used by those who see love as a desiring to want to have

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) to Vermeer's career. Vermeer's rich patron, Van Ruijven (Tom Wilkinson), notices Griet on a visit to the Vermeer household and asks the painter if he will give her up to work in his own house, a situation which "ruined" his former girl-maid. Vermeer refuses, but agrees to paint a portrait of Griet for Van Ruijven. As Vermeer secretly works on the eponymous painting, Catharina cannot help but notice something is amiss. Her growing disdain for Griet becomes more apparent, spurred on by Van Ruijven's deliberate suggestions of an improper relationship between Vermeer and the young maid. A conflicted Griet must

neg: Pendant and navigational instruments were made as pendants. In the first decade of the 21st century, jewellers started to incorporate USB flash drives into pendants. Pendant The word pendant derives from the Latin word "pendere" and Old French word "pendr", both of which translate to "to hang down". It comes in the form of a loose-hanging piece of jewellery, generally attached by a small loop to a necklace, which may be known as a "pendant necklace".<ref name="pendant/"></ref> A pendant earring is an earring with a piece hanging down. In modern French, "pendant" is the gerund form of "pendre" (" to hang")

neg: Pendant Pendant The word pendant derives from the Latin word "pendere" and Old French word "pendr", both of which translate to "to hang down". It comes in the form of a loose-hanging piece of jewellery, generally attached by a small loop to a necklace, which may be known as a "pendant necklace".<ref name="pendant/"></ref> A pendant earring is an earring with a piece hanging down. In modern French, "pendant" is the gerund form of "pendre" (" to hang") and also means "during". The extent to which the design of a pendant can be incorporated into an overall necklace makes it not always

neg: Mistress and Maid letter, hinting that she has a relationship with someone who is perhaps a great distance away. There is a hinted relationship between the maid and the mistress with their furtive glances and their body language, as they lean towards each other. The mistress has a pensive gaze, with her lips parted ever so slightly and her fingertips lifted to her chin in a questioning manner. The mistress' profile is slightly blurred and undefined and is meant to portray an idea that the woman is soft and sweet like another of Vermeer's paintings, "Girl with a Pearl Earring". The painting is

neg: Cillian Murphy or brawling drunkenly at premieres". He had a minor supporting role in the successful Hollywood period drama "Cold Mountain" (2003). He portrayed a deserting soldier who shares a grim scene with Jude Law's character, and was only on location in Romania for a week. Murphy stated that it was a "massive production", remarking that director Anthony Minghella was the calmest director he'd ever met. Murphy also had a role as a butcher in "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (2003) with Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth. In 2004, he toured Ireland with the Druid Theatre Company, in "The Playboy of the

neg: The Mill and the Cross vignettes depicting everyday peasant life, interspersed with monologues from some of the principal characters, including Bruegel explaining the structure and symbolism of his painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564. Joe Bendel: "... one of the standouts at this year’s Sundance". "Variety"s Dennis Harvey wrote: "While hardly an exercise in strict realism a la "The Girl With the Pearl Earring", the pic details rustic Flanders life with loving care, from costuming to simple machinery. Pic's narrative content ... is hardly straightforward or propulsive. ... the film is never dull, and frequently entrancing."

neg: Ultramarine blues for the robes of Mary and the Christ child. As a result of the high price, artists sometimes economized by using a cheaper blue, azurite, for under painting. Most likely imported to Europe through Venice, the pigment was seldom seen in German art or art from countries north of Italy. Due to a shortage of azurite in the late 16th and 17th century, the price for the already-expensive ultramarine increased dramatically. The turban of the Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer is painted with a mixture of ultramarine and lead white, with a thin glaze of pure ultramarine

neg: Scarlett Johansson in Translation" and the drama "Girl with a Pearl Earring". In the former, directed by Sofia Coppola, she plays Charlotte, a listless and lonely young wife, opposite Bill Murray. Coppola had first noticed Johansson in "Manny & Lo", and compared her to a young Lauren Bacall; Coppola based the film's story on the relationship between Humphrey Bogart and Bacall in "The Big Sleep" (1946). Johansson found the experience of working with a female director different because of Coppola's ability to empathize with her. Made on a budget of $4million, the film earned $119million at the box office and received positive

neg: Scarlett Johansson it was better to approach the story with a fresh start. "Girl with a Pearl Earring" received positive reviews and was profitable. In his review for "The New Yorker", Anthony Lane thought that her presence kept the film "alive", writing, "She is often wordless and close to plain onscreen, but wait for the ardor with which she can summon a closeup and bloom under its gaze; this is her film, not Vermeer's, all the way." Owen Gleiberman, of "Entertainment Weekly" noted her "nearly silent performance", observing, "The interplay on her face of fear, ignorance, curiosity, and sex is intensely dramatic."

neg: Theo van Wijngaarden Vermeer, akin to his "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and donated by collector Andrew W. Mellon to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1937. Van Wijngaarden often served as the front man, making the sales deals on van Meegeren's forgeries. Theo van Wijngaarden Theo van Wijngaarden (27 February 1874, Rotterdam – 4 November 1952, Voorburg) was a Dutch art forger. Van Wijngaarden was born in Rotterdam and later lived in The Hague. Associated often with fellow art forger Han van Meegeren, van Wijngaarden was a lesser artist whose legitimate income came largely from restoration, working with cheaply

neg: Kimberley Nixon Tim Key, which aired on 1 May 2014 on Sky Arts. Nixon starred in the medical drama "Critical", with Lennie James, Emma Fryer and Paul Bazely, that debuted on Sky 1 on 24 February 2015. She also starred in a Welsh thriller titled "Kingdom of Rain", with Julian Lewis Jones and Robert Kazinsky. In September 2008, she made her stage debut as Griet in a tour and London run of an adaptation of "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Nixon is a supporter of Humanists UK. Kimberley Nixon Kimberley Nixon (born 24 September 1985) is a Welsh actress. Nixon is known

neg: Johannes Vermeer in the final stages of the work and its tragic end, a modern copyist's deliberations on the importance of the work in his life, and the final stages of Vermeer's life. Tracy Chevalier's novel "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (1999) and the film of the same name (2003) present a fictional account of Vermeer's creation of the famous painting and his relationship with the equally fictional model. The film was nominated for Oscars in cinematography, art direction, and costume design. "Vermeer in Bosnia" (2004) is a collection of essays by Lawrence Weschler. The title essay is a meditation on the

neg: The Milkmaid (Vermeer) cool dampness of the room and the starchy linen of the maid's white cap, touch her sculptural shoulders and corseted waist. She is not an apparition or abstraction. She is not the ideal, worldly housewife of Vermeer's later "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher" or the ethereal beauty in "Girl with a Pearl Earring". She is not the cartoonish buxom vixen in Leyden's drawing. She is real — as real as a painting can get anyway." This painting has "perhaps, the most brilliant color scheme of his oeuvre", according to the Essential Vermeer website. Already in the 18th century, English

neg: Sophie Matisse for years thereafter. In these paintings, Sophie would reproduce the recognizable settings of famous paintings, always omitting the figures; as if the models had "stepped out for the moment." Famous works of Vermeer also figured prominently in other early entries to the series; "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher", "The Art of Painting", and "Girl with a Pearl Earring" were all reinterpreted by Sophie in the late 1990s, minus the figures portrayed by Vermeer. Although she had previously participated in group exhibitions in New York and elsewhere, Sophie Matisse's first solo exhibition opened in January 2002, at the gallery which

neg: Scarlett Johansson reviews. Roger Ebert was pleased with the film and described the lead performances as "wonderful", and "Entertainment Weekly" wrote of Johansson's "embracing, restful serenity". "The New York Times" praised Johansson, then 18, for playing an older character. In Peter Webber's "Girl with a Pearl Earring", which is based on the novel of same name by Tracy Chevalier, Johansson played Griet, a young 17th-century servant in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by English actor Colin Firth). Webber interviewed 150 actors before casting Johansson. Johansson found the character moving, but did not read the novel, as she thought

neg: Mistress and Maid in his other portraits such as "Portrait of a Young Woman" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring". There is a prominent usage of pearls on the mistress in this painting. Pearls were an important status symbol of the period and that was reflected in the mistress' fancy attire and her abundance of pearls. A prevalent theme in Vermeer's paintings from around the late 1660s is letter writings. In earlier works, there is one woman isolated with a letter, but in this painting the added maid is a new element. This gives the painting a sense of anxiousness between the two

neg: St Trinian's (film) Camilla defending her. Carnaby encourages Camilla to turn the school into a boutique hotel, telling her that "when this school closes down, you'll have lost everything. More importantly, so will I." Kelly and Flash work with the students to devise a plan to save the school. They must get into the final of "School Challenge", a TV quiz show held in the National Gallery in London, as a cover for stealing Vermeer’s "Girl With a Pearl Earring". Chelsea, Peaches and Chloe (the Posh Totty clique) are chosen as the "School Challenge" Team. By cheating in every round, they make it

neg: James Mylne (artist) has also appeared prominently in James Mylne's artwork. Two of the artist's photorealistic ballpoint likenesses of Moss were chosen as art magazine covers, the first in 2009 and again in 2012, which also featured an interview with Mylne. One of these Kate Moss drawings reportedly required six weeks to complete. James Mylne participated in a 2010 "Bic Challenge" campaign sponsored by the pen company, for which he created a replica of Vermeer’s "Girl With a Pearl Earring" using a single black Bic pen as part of the challenge. He appeared on British television to discuss the artwork, noting the 90

neg: Tracy Chevalier she began working as an editorial assistant with Macmillan's Dictionary of Art, then later joined St. James Press, serving as a reference book editor. Her first novel, "The Virgin Blue", was published in the UK in 1997 and was chosen by W H Smith for their showcase of new authors. Her second novel, entitled "Girl with a Pearl Earring", was published in 1999. The work, which was based on the famous painting by Vermeer, has been translated into 38 languages. As of 2014, it has sold over five million copies worldwide. It won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award in

neg: Scarlett Johansson "Ghost World" (2001). Johansson shifted to adult roles in 2003 with her performances in "Lost in Translation" (for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress) and "Girl with a Pearl Earring". She was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards for these films, and for playing an estranged teenager in the drama "A Love Song for Bobby Long" (2004), and a seductress in the psychological thriller "Match Point" (2005). Other films during this period include the mystery thriller "The Prestige" (2006) and the comedy-drama "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (2008). She also released two albums: "Anywhere I Lay My Head" (2008)

neg: Alexandre Desplat his first film "Le souffleur" in 1986. When recording the music for his first film, he met violinist Dominique Lemonnier who became his favorite soloist, artistic director, and also his wife. Desplat worked on many films since the 1980s, and his big Hollywood break came in 2003 with the soundtrack for the film "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Desplat has composed extensively for French cinema, Hollywood, and incidental music for over 100 films, including "Lapse of Memory" (1992), "Family Express" (1992), "Regarde Les Hommes Tomber" (1994), "Les Péchés Mortels" (1995), César-nominated "Un Héros Très Discret" (1996), "Une Minute de Silence"

neg: Tracy Chevalier Tracy Chevalier Tracy Rose Chevalier, (born October 19, 1962) is an American-British historical novelist. She has written eight novels. She is best known for her second novel, "Girl with a Pearl Earring", which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth. Tracy Chevalier was born on October 19, 1962, in Washington, D.C. She is the daughter of Douglas and Helen (née Werner) Chevalier. Her father was a photographer who worked with "The Washington Post" for more than 30 years. Her mother died in 1970, when Chevalier was eight years old. Chevalier has an older sister, Kim

neg: Mariana Peñalva Raul Quintanilla. She also have two MBA degrees ("Visual Arts" and other in "Filmmaking") both from French Universities. She got her first approach to films, when she was proposed to be Angelina Jolie's camera double at "Original Sin". In 2000 she travels to Europe and establish in France to finish her degree in Arts, in the almost 4 years she spent in Europe she got the opportunity to work in some "Independent Films" such as "Girl with a Pearl Earring" with Scarlett Johansson. At her return to Mexico she worked in some Mexican television programs like "La vida es una

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) 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. In his feature film debut, Webber sought to avoid employing traditional characteristics of the period film drama. In a 2003 interview with IGN, he said, "What I was scared of is ending up with something that was like "Masterpiece Theatre", [that] very polite Sunday evening BBC kind of thing, and I

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) book had been reprinted 18 times with close to two million copies sold. In 2005 HarperCollins brought out a UK special edition with nine colour plates of Vermeer paintings, published in celebration of one million copies sold. "The New York Times" described the work as a "brainy novel whose passion is ideas"; "Atlantic Monthly" praised Chevalier's effort "in creating the feel of a society with sharp divisions in status and creed”. However, "Publishers Weekly" noted details that “threaten to rob the narrative of its credibility. Griet's ability to suggest to Vermeer how to improve a painting demands one stretch of

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) Murphy), notices Griet and is drawn to her. However, she is slow to return his affections as their relationship develops. As Griet cleans Vermeer's studio, which his wife Catharina (Essie Davis) never enters, the painter begins to converse with her and encourages her appreciation of painting, light and color. Vermeer gives her lessons in mixing paints and other tasks, taking care to keep this secret from his wife, who would react with anger and jealousy if she found out that her husband was spending time with Griet. In contrast, Vermeer's pragmatic mother-in-law, Maria Thins (Judy Parfitt), sees Griet as useful

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) as being "about creativity and the link between art and money and power and sex in some strange unholy mixture." Characterising it as a "coming of age" story with a "fascinating dark undertow," Webber deliberately did not read the book prior to filming, as he was concerned about being influenced by it, opting instead to rely on the script and the period. 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." Johansson

neg: King Lear (1987 film) a hotel bedroom, looking at an album with images of Orson Welles, Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Power and Virtue (inter-title) Rembrandt's "", Rubens' "Young Woman Looking Down", Rembrandt's "". At the same time, in voice-over, Cordelia reads from sonnet 47: and Lear - foreshadowing the last scene of the play - mourns the death of his daughter. Seen at a restaurant table with yellow flowers, Will Jr. explains in voice-over that he is on duty for the Cannon Cultural Division: and then there is NO THING (inter-title). Everything had disappeared after the Chernobyl explosion. "Saturn Devouring His Son"

neg: Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) not seek to retain control during the film's creative process, though she briefly considered adapting it herself. Hetreed worked closely with Tucker and Webber to adapt the book, explaining that "working with them on drafts helped me to concentrate on what the film would be, rather than how beautifully I could make a line work." Her first draft was closest to the source material and it slowly "developed its own character" through rewrites. She avoided using a voiceover, which was present in the novel, "partly because it would make it very literary." Instead, she focused on conveying Griet's thoughts visually

neg: Mauritshuis desire to expand. In 2010, the definitive design was presented. The museum would occupy a part of the nearby Sociëteit de Witte building. The two buildings would be connected via an underground tunnel, running underneath the Korte Vijverberg. The renovation started in 2012 and finished in 2014. During the renovation, about 100 of the museum's paintings were displayed in the Gemeentemuseum in the "Highlights Mauritshuis" exhibition. About 50 other paintings, including the "Girl With the Pearl Earring", were on loan to exhibitions in the United States and Japan. The museum was reopened on 27 June 2014 by King Willem-Alexander. The

neg: Frick Collection The Frick is known to have extraordinary temporary exhibits. When the Mauritshuis was under reconstruction, key and rare works like Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring and Fabritius’s The Goldfinch toured the United States, and was exhibited at the Frick in 2013 as opposed to other venues available in New York City. The Frick Collection oversees the nearby Frick Art Reference Library. The collections held at the library focus on art of the Western tradition from the fourth century to the mid-twentieth century, and chiefly include information about paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, and illuminated manuscripts. Archival materials augment its research