Uncovering the Secrets of the ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’
- 6 years ago
Uncovering the Secrets of the ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’
“We’ll see how much information we can gain with the technology at our disposal in
a very short period of time — two weeks, working 24 hours a day, day and night.”
The “Girl” is the star attraction of the Mauritshuis, a collection of Dutch 17th-century paintings that draws about 400,000 visitors each year.
It is an exceedingly rare occasion that the Mauritshuis takes “Girl” off the wall,
but it seemed justified for this enormous team effort, which takes place under the umbrella of the Netherlands Institute for Conservation, Art and Science and includes participants from the National Gallery of Art in Washington; the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam; Delft University of Technology; and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands.
What steps did Vermeer take to make this painting?”
These are some of the fundamental questions we still have about Johannes Vermeer’s beloved 1665 painting of a young woman in a blue
and yellow turban, glancing beguilingly over her shoulder, according to Abbie Vandivere, paintings conservator at the Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery here.
“We’ll see how much information we can gain with the technology at our disposal in
a very short period of time — two weeks, working 24 hours a day, day and night.”
The “Girl” is the star attraction of the Mauritshuis, a collection of Dutch 17th-century paintings that draws about 400,000 visitors each year.
It is an exceedingly rare occasion that the Mauritshuis takes “Girl” off the wall,
but it seemed justified for this enormous team effort, which takes place under the umbrella of the Netherlands Institute for Conservation, Art and Science and includes participants from the National Gallery of Art in Washington; the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam; Delft University of Technology; and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands.
What steps did Vermeer take to make this painting?”
These are some of the fundamental questions we still have about Johannes Vermeer’s beloved 1665 painting of a young woman in a blue
and yellow turban, glancing beguilingly over her shoulder, according to Abbie Vandivere, paintings conservator at the Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery here.