Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier centers on Vermeer’s prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries – and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier’s second novel of the same title. Yet Vermeer’s extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. Narrator: First Person by a sixteen-year-old girl named Grietīook Summary: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Theme: Envy, Religion, Desire, Creativity, Work, Class and Power
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