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thievesandtravelers · 2 years

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Mauritshuis, the Hague

#mauritshuis #den haag #the hague #the girl with a pearl earring #the goldfinch #rembrandt #vermeer #art

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balkanparamo · 1 year

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Girl with Pearl Earring, at the museum - Johannes Vermeer

#art #painting #va #upl #girl with a pearl earring #johannes vermeer #museum #mauritshuis

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jaybeewriting · 2 months

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On Looking Alive: A monologue by the Girl with a Pearl Earring

What most struck me when Master Vermeer asked me to sit for his painting was his reminder to breathe.

Breathe? I say. Of course I’m going to breathe. I have to breathe.

Ah yes, of course, he says. You will be taking shallow breaths so as not to move your lips, your breast, your turban, but what I mean is that you must look alive. If you look alive my dear, the painting will look alive.

I ask what that meant but he has already picked up his brush and told me, stay still.

I assume the position he had maneuvered me into with his hand on my chin, lips parted, eyes darting backwards, his wife’s borrowed turban around my auburn hair. And then I still myself. And then I try to look alive.

I must not move. Though it is difficult. I will distract myself with thinking. That does not take much moving.

I had never thought about what it meant to look alive. I have always been alive, so far as I can tell, and so I do not know what it is to not live. And yet as I stare back at Master Vermeer, deft fingers flicking over the canvas with his tiny brush, light streaming from the window across my pale face, I see what it is to be alive.

There is a mirror behind him and in it I can see myself being formed. I am being petrified in paint by his hands. He is carving me into the canvas with oil and the sweat that drips down his neck. He is pulling each of my breaths, held close to my chest so as not to rattle the heavy pearls at my ears, and catching them in the air. He is pressing them into the cloth stretched over timbers brought in from the country. He is capturing me. He is creating me anew. He is not only painting my likeness; he is painting my life.

Oh that I should ever create like that. Oh that I could take what was in front of me and make it stay still, like a stone and yet have it still live. Oh that I could pull from the depths of the dark painted canvas, a figure, alive, like he has in painting me.

I am glad now that he wanted me to look back at him. I am glad now that he has made me stare at him and not out the window. Here I can watch him do his work. I can watch him as he is so gently recrafting my life, my very breath, in oil and canvas.

I hope he paints his reflection in my pearl. I hope I am not alone in life on this canvas.

I breathe in. Look alive. I breathe out. Look alive.

#writing #art #art history #monologue #the girl with a pearl earring #Johannes Vermeer #original fiction #a little short fiction to start the day

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theeastbayguy · 5 months

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the Girl with a Pearl Earring

#ai generated #ai image #ai artwork #the girl with a pearl earring

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scuffedgrannysblog · 7 months

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A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier

A nice story, nothing too demanding about a woman escaping a controlling mother to live a life of her own independently

I have just read my synopsis above and realised that it makes this book sound a little uninspiring and yet, it really was a good read. I don’t think that I have ever read a bad Tracy Chevalier novel – some are better than others and some are just brilliant but this one showcases Chevalier’s storytelling technique to good effect. The story concerns itself with Violet Speedwell, a lady in her…

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#A Single Thread #Arthur Knight #Book Review #British fiction #embroidery #Good read #Historical fiction #Rachel Deeming #scuffed granny #Scuffed Granny Reviews #The Girl with a Pearl Earring #Tracy Chevalier #Violet Speedwell #Winchester

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shuploc · 2 months

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"Man with a Mystra earring"

#gale dekarios #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #larian studios #fan art #art #portrait #girl with a pearl earring #artists on tumblr

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mimi-maru · 9 months

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the girl with the sony walkman

#based on the girl with a pearl earring #max mayfield #stranger things #sadie sink #mimimaru art

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ybon-paramoux · 14 days

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Beautiful Pearls Of Other Colours by Palodegard ( A Homage to Vermeer)

#art #photography #johannes vermeer #girl with a pearl earring #melanin #ebony #black tumblr #woc #paloderard #painting

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suwisuwii · 9 months

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Girl with the Gentlemage's Umbrella

#ffxiv art #blue mage #ffxiv blue mage #my art #gift for my partner since he worked really hard for that #inspired by vermeer's girl with a pearl earring

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henk-heijmans · 3 months

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Girl with pearl earring, ca. 1665, Mauritshuis, Netherlands, Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675) - unknown photographer

#Johannes Vermeer #Netherlands #Mauritshuis #Girl with pearl earring

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vivyacious · 10 months

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A very realistic 1 - 1 accurate paint study

#art #girl with the pearl earring #oil painting #painting #cute #funny #ducks #duck #classic painting #paint study

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beckysquiltingagain · 7 months

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I might like the back better than the front… can’t stop staring at it. But it took me an entire work week to finish, so I’m just going to keep looking at it