Head Of A Girl: A Painting by Johannes Vermeer
This painting inspired Tracy Chevalier to write “Girl With a Pearl Earring”
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3 min readMay 7, 2023
This is the painting that inspired Tracy Chevalier to write “Girl with a Pearl Earring” (1999) and which in turn led to the film (2003) starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson. It has been termed “The Dutch Mona Lisa” for its similarity to Da Vinci’s…
