Girl with pearl earring

Three climate activists were arrested after two people glued themselves to Johannes Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' painting on Thursday.

The face you see before you now is of a woman that was painted by a Dutch painting artist known as Johannes Vermeer. Not much is known about the paint

a young Sitwell photographed by Beaton in 1952 Dame Edith Sitwell in her "unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish" way that only she could do- gathered old English receipts that used wild flowers. Here from her A BOOK OF FLOWERS (1952) Cowslip CREAM "take the Cowslips when they are green and in Blossom, and bruise them in a mortar, and to a good handful or two so done put a quart of Cream and boil it up gently with them. Put in a blade of Mace, season with fine sugar and Orange-Flower…

Day 19 of Culture Tourist Art Blogmas 2021 is Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer in Mauritshuis, The Hague. Every day in December I share beautiful artwork from European museums.

Sculpted and painted the color texture in ZBrush, rendered in Maya with Arnold, used Xgen core for the hair.

Learn how to paint the iconic Girl with a Pearl Earring in this step-by-step acrylic tutorial. Follow along with the techniques of Johannes Vermeer to create your own masterpiece. Join the class replay here!

There can be no doubt about just how famous this Dutch masterpiece is. While very little is known about the woman featured, how the painting came about, or even about the life of the great Dutch ar…

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