Woman with a Pearl Necklace
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| - | ''[[Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting]]'' (2005) is a book by [[Siri Hustvedt]]. | + | '''''Woman with a Pearl Necklace''''' by [[Johannes Vermeer]] is a seventeenth-century Northern European painting. Painted in oils on canvas, Johannes Vermeer portrayed a young Dutch woman, most likely of upper-class-descent, dressing herself with two yellow ribbons, pearl earrings, and a pearl necklace. As a very popular artist of the 17th and 18th centuries, the [[Dutch Golden Age]], Vermeer depicted many women in similar circumstances within interior, domestic scenes. The same woman also appears in ''[[The Love Letter (Vermeer)|The Love Letter]]'' and ''[[A Lady Writing a Letter]]''. |
| - | From the publisher: | + | ==See also== |
| + | * [[Vermeer]] | ||
| + | * [[Girl with a Pearl Earring]] | ||
| - | :In ''Mysteries of the Rectangle'', Hustvedt concentrates her narrative gifts on the works of such masters as [[Francisco Goya]], [[Jan Vermeer]], [[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]], [[Gerhard Richter]], and [[Joan Mitchell]]. Through her own personal experiences, Hustvedt is able to reveal things until now hidden in plain sight: an egglike detail in Vermeer's ''[[Woman with a Pearl Necklace]]'' and the many [[hidden faces|hidden]] self-portraits in Goya's series of drawings, [[Los Caprichos]], as well as in his infamous painting ''[[The Third of May]]''. Most importantly, these essays exhibit the passion, thrill, and sheer pleasure of bewilderment a work of art can produce—if you simply take the time to look. | ||
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Woman with a Pearl Necklace by Johannes Vermeer is a seventeenth-century Northern European painting. Painted in oils on canvas, Johannes Vermeer portrayed a young Dutch woman, most likely of upper-class-descent, dressing herself with two yellow ribbons, pearl earrings, and a pearl necklace. As a very popular artist of the 17th and 18th centuries, the Dutch Golden Age, Vermeer depicted many women in similar circumstances within interior, domestic scenes. The same woman also appears in The Love Letter and A Lady Writing a Letter.
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