Girl With A Pearl Earring
(Tracy Chevalier)
What is behind that half smile, that sad look, that pose, andtheraiment of neither lady nor servant? Why do they call her theDutchMona Lisa? How did the great painters work? Whatlimitations,illusions, and realities moved them? A book of supremenarrative sensibility. The author sees, behind thefamous painting ofthe great Dutch painter Vermeer, a girl and herstory. She feels herstruggles, her desires, her temptations. She takesyou to a veryconcrete time and place (Delft, Holland, 1665) and yourelive it with aluxury of details. She makes you recover a time inwhich everything wasdone differently and where human relationshipsplayed a great role.Griet, a craftsman's daughter, is aseventeen-year-old girl who has togo to work in the house of an artistto support her family after anaccident leaves her father blind. Oneday as Griet is preparing food inher parents' kitchen, Vermeer and hiswife arrive to meet her. Vermeer'swife's intuition for understandinglight and color is immediatelycaptured, and she askes Griet why shearranges the vegetables as shedoes. Griet does not know what to reply;she does it intuitively;because they look better to her that way. She,who has never gonefarther than the town square, will now have to go tothe artist's houseto live. There live his wife, his children, theother servants, and hismother-in-law. This last one fights to maintainher own style of livingand is the one who decides almost everything.Griet inspires Vermeer,and in spite of their cultural and socialdifference, there is anunderstanding between the two. In secret hebegins to introduce her tothe mysterious world of painting. Vermeer isa perfectionist and oftentakes months to finish a painting. Grietfalls more and more in lovewith Vermeer; she is not sure about hisfeelings. The painter's daughterbecomes jealous and causes seriousproblems for Griet. Pieter, a boybutcher from the town, falls in lovewith Griet. The rich Van Ruijvenalso shows interest for her, butVermeer intervenes. Nonetheless, hecannot refuse to paint a portraitof her for Van Ruijven. Seriousproblems result and decisions areforced to be made.
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