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Decorarts girl with a pearl earring by johannes vermeer. They were driving down the lake to the cottages that moonlit january night, twenty of them in the bobsled. Girl with a pearl earring tells the story of griet, a 16yearold dutch girl who becomes a maid in the house of the painter johannes vermeer. The screenplay was adapted by screenwriter olivia hetreed, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by tracy chevalier. Finding the story inside the painting in this ted talk 14. Even so, girl with a pearl earring only became one of vermeers more famous pieces around the turn of the 21st century, with the 1995 blockbuster exhibition at the national gallery of art in washington, d.
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