Dutch researchers coax secrets from Girl with a Pearl Earring
by Mark Brown Arts correspondent from on (#52RTZ)
Although offering insights into the artist's technique, gallery has yet to solve Vermeer's biggest mystery
A major research project into one of the world's most popular and captivating paintings has revealed new secrets but the most tantalising question remains: just who was the girl with a pearl earring?
Researchers at the Mauritshuis gallery in The Hague on Tuesday revealed the results of extensive investigations into its star painting, Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, thought to date from about 1665.
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