The world-famous Girl with a Pearl Earring was most likely not commissioned by Vermeer’s male patron, but by the man’s wife, ...

Or at least according to TikTok’s latest dating theory, that is. Per the “pearl earring theory,” women with a passion for ...

“Girl With a Pearl Earring” was at last returned to the walls of the Mauritshuis in September 1945, four months after the end of World War II, and by November it was joined by the museum’s ...

It is reproduced in everything from posters and films to tea caddies. Yet for years, art experts have wondered what makes Dutch master Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665 ...

Johannes Vermeer, Girl With a Pearl Earring (ca. 1665) is found in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands. Photo: VCG Wilson / Corbis via Getty Images.

Police stand guard outside the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague in October 2022, after Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" was targeted by climate activists.

But long before either of these iconic roles, Murphy featured in the 2003 romantic thriller Girl With A Pearl Earring, based on the novel of the same name by Tracy Chevalier.

But as this black-tie dinner up in the museum's Hamon Tower celebrated the opening of "Girl With a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis," we couldn't help but wonder: Where in the ...

The Mauritshuis is devoting this mini-exhibition to "Girl with a Pearl Earring" in the wake of the recent major Vermeer retrospective at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. The latter attracted some 650,000 ...

Google "Johannes Vermeer," and you'll be met with an AI-generated rendition of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" as the top search result.