Girl With a Pearl Earring is a historical novel that is set in 17th century Delft, Holland. The novel is narrated in the first person by a sixteen-year-old girl named Griet. The story opens in the year 1664, where Griet is unexpectedly informed that she will be starting work as a maid in the home of Johannes Vermeer, a Dutch painter, and his wife, Catharina. Due to Griet’s father, a tile painter, getting into a workplace accident which has blinded him and denied him the ability to work, her family’s
Girl with a Pearl Earring begins in the year 1664 when the Dutch painter and his wife Catharina are in search for a new maid. Their search leads them to the house of the main character, Griet, and her lower class family. Griet’s father has informed Vermeer of his daughter’s ability to clean without moving anything, an ability she had perfected after an accident that left her father blind. Although Griet is reluctant to leave her house and begin work as a maid she realizes that a steady income
For example, there are many occasions in the book when Griet is faced by men that are overly attracted to her. This makes Catharina worried from the beginning about Vermeer and Griet. The appliance of Griets beauty makes The Girl With The Pearl Earring a much more interesting novel.
In “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, Tracy Chevalier tells the story of the creation of Vermeer’s famous painting titled “Girl with a Pearl Earring”. Chevalier explains the artist’s complicated relationship with both models and patrons. She also touches on how apprenticeships worked during this time period. There are also in-depth descriptions of the mixing of paints and color application. Chevalier gives a realistic representation of what the process of art creation entailed in the 17th century. The
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front of that painting, and I tell myself a story about it,” this answered my question. The title of this novel is very simple: “Girl With A Pearl Earring,” nothing special. Yet, after reading it, the painting has such a deep story in it and nothing else can be titled for this novel other than A Girl With A Pearl Earring. The painting Girl With A Pearl Earring is known as the Dutch Mona Lisa. Thus, this novel tells a story of the famous painting, all the while depicting life in 17th century Delft, a
“You smell of linseed oil.” My father spoke in a baffled tone. He did not believe that simply cleaning a painter’s studio would make the smell linger on my clothes, my skin, my hair. He was right. It was as if he guessed that I now slept with the oil in my room, that I sat for hours being painted and absorbing the scent. He guessed and yet he could not say. His blindness took away his confidence so he did not trust the thoughts in his mind. A year before I might have tried to help him, suggest what
backstory” for three objects, events, or other phenomena that were previously not categorized as art”. The pieces I will be writing back stories on are “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer, “The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt, and “Cafe Terrace at Night” by Vincent Van Gogh. The first piece I will be writing about is “Girl with a Pearl Earring”. The backstory on this piece is complicated. The girl in the painting is the artist's ex lover. She is a blonde, small, 23 year old young lady. She was born in Germany
As I made my way around the Tweed Museum of Art I came across an etching done by Kathe Kollwitz. “Working Woman with Earring” caught my attention due to the black and white that emphasized the emotional use of color. I analyzed the art piece by considering the following: what I know, what I see, what I feel, the differences between that time in history and now, how the piece of art embodies the culture and values of its time and place and the relationship between the form and content. To begin learning
Another way that Griet and Belle show the unfair treatment towards women is how their societies view women as less than men and try to force a "yes" response to a proposal, giving them no options in their own lives. In Girl With a Pearl Earring Griet is expected to marry Pieter the Son and her family is constantly pressuring her to do so because of the meat it would provide for them. Pieter tries several times to get Griet to agree to marrying him, which she constantly tries to avoid answering. On
In Girl with a Pearl Earring, Griet is intelligent and shows artistic knowledge much like Vermeer, but she cannot act upon it. When Griet and Vermeer first meet in the kitchen of her parent’s home, Griet is laying out and chopping vegetables. She puts them out in a very organized way, and Vermeer immediately takes notice. When he questions her for separating the colors as she has, she tells him, “the colors fight when they are side by side, sir.”(5). This shows she recognizes which colors look
As I made my way around the Tweed Museum of Art I came across an etching done by Kathe Kollwitz. “Working Woman with Earring” caught my attention due to the black and white that emphasized the emotional use of color. I analyzed the art piece by considering the following: what I know, what I see, what I feel, the differences between that time in history and now, how the piece of art embodies the culture and values of its time and place and the relationship between the form and content. To begin
Vermeer was born on October, 31st 1632, in Delft, Netherlands, and died December, 16 1675. Jan was one of the best artists during that period of time. He, had many successes, but one painting that capture everyone’s attention was, Girl with a Pearl Earring, an 18 ¼ x 15 ¼ in. Size portrait, painted in 1655, and represented to be an oil on canvas painting. This portrait can be viewed in Mauritshuis, The Hague. The genre of this painting is a historical fiction, as in the subject it was about daily life
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Tracy Chevalier is unusual in having taken a specific painting and created a construction round it. How does she build a convincing impression of the characters and their circumstances in this unusual household on Papists Corner in Delft between 1664-1676? Tracy Chevalier is unusual at having taken a painting, a Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer and assembled her story around it. Tracy Chevalier's construction is about a young
leads to the complexity and beauty of art itself. The meaning behind a work of art is not always what is important to people, it can also be the aesthetics. People like art that is pleasing to the eye as well as to the mind. In Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, Griet, the protagonist, silently appreciates and critiques the artwork in the Vermeer household while busy acting as maid, a
Griet from the book, Girl With A Pearl Earring is a women that has a life so complex and with so many hard choices that her life is a constant challenge. Does she follow in her brother’s footsteps and leave her family behind or does she choose what’s expected of her and marry Pieter the son? Does she reveal her talent for looking at the world uniquely or does she hide behind the men in her life? These are the many complex decisions that women in that type of society had to deal with. As Griet moves
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