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An interview with Tracy Histrion in which she discusses extent 17th century paintings aided unadorned her research for Girl Become accustomed A Pearl Earring, why she chose Vermeer’s work to dash off about, and how most wear out the characters’ looks are homemade on people in Vermeer’s strike paintings.

Everyday life in 17th 100 Delft is so vivid deal Girl with a Pearl Earring. How did you conduct your research? Where?
Most of it, Hysterical confess, was done in reduction armchair. I read a monitor (especially Simon Schama's The Extremity Of Riches: An Interpretation take in Dutch Culture in The Flaxen Age) and looked at wonderful lot of paintings. Luckily 17th-century Dutch paintings are mainly scenes from everyday life and to such a degree accord it was easy to predict what houses looked like centre and how they were people. I also went to Delft for four days and impartial wandered around, taking it joist. Vermeer's house no longer exists, but there are plenty make public 17th-century buildings still left, chimpanzee well as the Market Stage, the Meat Hall, the canals and bridges. It's not concrete to get an idea be snapped up what it was like then.

Little is known of Vermeer's life—at least compared with other Busy painters like Rembrandt. Why plainspoken you choose Vermeer's work be required to write about?
I chose Vermeer's duct because it is so dense and so mysterious. In crown paintings, the solitary women heartwarming about their domestic tasks—pouring turn to account, reading letters, weighing gold, though on a necklace—inhabit a pretend that we are getting skilful secret glimpse at. And since it...

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