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Facts about Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring
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A 2018 technical investigation revealed that the dark background of Girl with a Pearl Earring was originally a deep green glaze that faded over time.
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Tracy Chevalier's 1999 novel of the same name imagined a fictional backstory for the unknown girl depicted in Vermeer's painting.
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Painted around 1665, Girl with a Pearl Earring depicts a girl in a yellow and blue turban against a dark background, rendered in oil on canvas.
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Housed in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands, Girl with a Pearl Earring is sometimes called the Mona Lisa of the North.
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The painting by Johannes Vermeer is classified as a tronie, a Dutch Golden Age genre depicting an anonymous figure rather than a specific portrait subject.