Fading into the background: the dark space surrounding Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring

Fading into the background: the dark space surrounding Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring

Abstract The background of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665, Mauritshuis) has, until recently, been interpreted as a flat dark space. The painting was examined in 2018 as part of the research project The Girl in the Spotlight using a combination of micro- and macro-scale analytical techn...

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Main Authors: Abbie Vandivere, Annelies van Loon, Tom Callewaert, Ralph Haswell, Art Ness Proaño Gaibor, Henk van Keulen, Emilien Leonhardt, Joris Dik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-09-01
Series:Heritage Science
Subjects:
Background
Glaze
Indigo
Weld
17th century
Optical coherence tomography
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-019-0311-9

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