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...read the book and seen the movie, but where do you go if you want to see the original The Girl with a Pearl Earring, the Johannes Vermeer painting that inspired both? Art enthusiasts can go to www.cacr.caltech.edu/~roy/vermeer where Caltech professor Roy Williams has gathered a wealth of information about the artist, including a clickable map of the worldwide locations of all 34 viewable Vermeer paintings. To see The Girl with a Pearl Earring, you will have to travel to the Netherlands. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...ransom note - but its real objective was to trade the paintings for the release of Dolours and Marion Price, sisters who were jailed for life on explosives charges and were on hunger strike in London's Brixton jail. The Dugdale gang took 19 paintings, including a Goya, a Vermeer and a Gainsborough. But their caper quickly came unstuck. Five paintings were found two weeks later in a wardrobe in a house in County Cork which Dugdale had rented. The rest were found rolled up in the boot of a Morris Minor which she had borrowed from her landlord. Dugdale...
...concern itself with deeper remarks about the world. “I’ve chosen,” O’Reilly says, “to move beyond the cerebral and look at the beautiful.” He cites as his artistic influences Vermeer, de Hooch, Clasez and Monet. And indeed, his photographs recall both the poignant and dignified simplicity of Flemish still lives and the French Impressionists’ emphasis on the qualitative and sensory experience of objects...
...male guests, incredibly, wore ties, and the female ones favored pearl necklaces--natural, one suspects, not cultured. But the pearl necklaces were about the only noncultured things in Koch's painted world (as, come to think of it, they were in the world of one of his chief idols, Vermeer). His pictures celebrate refinement--of material, of craftsmanship, of manners and, so far as a silent art can do so, of social speech...
...sill, far in space and temperature from his native Mediterranean. And high on the brick wall of the apartment building to the left, a pink patch: a ray of sun breaking through winter's grisaille. Surely Koch had been thinking of the "little patch of yellow wall" in Vermeer's View of Delft, the last thing Proust's connoisseur Bergotte notices before he is felled by a heart attack. Memory and desire: Koch's great understated themes...