Girl With A Pearl Earring

Hailed as a masterpiece of restrained erotic tension, Girl With A Pearl Earring is an achingly beautiful tale of forbidden love and tormented talent. Set in cloistered 17th century Holland, Scarlett Johansson is Griet, an innocent young woman sent to work in the household of the mysterious painter, Dutch Master, Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth).

Despite his wife's protestations about their new maid, Vermeer begins to see intelligence and understanding flickering in her eyes and slowly, tentatively lets her in to his private world of oils, canvasses and concentration.

But the ramifications of this tender and intimate bond will be explosive when Vermeer asks his young muse to secretly pose for his latest painting.

Based on the international best seller by Tracy Chevalier, Girl With A Pearl Earring evocatively brings to life the story behind one of the most beguiling portraits in history and the inspiration, rapture and pain that went into creating it.

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Girl With A Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier

$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

Using the famous painting by Vermeer as an inspiration, A Girl With a Pearl Earring is a brilliant historical novel about the corruption of innocence, Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeeth century Hollan... Buy or find out more →