The Dutch public declared it the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands. This painting is not a portrait, but an example of the Dutch genre called a ‘Tronie’, a Dutch term for a character or type of person. She turns her head looking over her shoulder and locking the viewer’s gaze with her. The painting represents a young woman in a dark shallow space that draws the viewer’s attention to her. The work resides in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. This is the most renowned work of Vermeer, which depicts a European young woman wearing an exotic dress, an oriental turban, and a large pearl earring. Girl with a Pearl Earring is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, a Dutch Golden Age Painter in the year 1665. Location: Mauritshuis Museum, Netherlands.It seems like the women lacking eyebrows and eyelashes follow the viewer wherever they go! The painting now is the property of the French Republic and permanently displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The woman in the painting is thought to be Italian Nobel-woman Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco Del Giocondo. The painting is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel. It is described as best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world. It also holds the Guinness World Record for the highest known insurance valuation. It is an Italian Renaissance painting that is considered as a masterpiece. The painting of Mona Lisa is one of the most valuable paintings in the world. The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, he had begun working on this portrait by October 1503 and left it unfinished in 1516 because Leonardo da Vinci’s right hand was a paralytic circa in 1571.
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