Girl with a Pearl Earring

By: Tracy Chevalier

Fiction

with precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the dutch painter johannes vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. the meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. yet vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the dutch golden age. his portrait of the anonymous girl...