The Girl with a Pearl Earring: 5 things to know

THE GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING: 5 THINGS TO KNOW

The Girl with a Pearl Earring is a painting by Johannes Vermeer, which exactly like Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is one of the world’s most famous paintings, and also one of the most reproduced.
It’s a painting which evokes beauty and mystery, a face which continues to fascinate everyone who admires it in person, or has discovered it through movies and books, even after more than three centuries.

The painting is also known as “Head of a Girl with a Turban”, and in this post I’ll tell you 5 things to know to really know it.

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Mona Lisa: 5 things to know

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MONA LISA: 5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MOST FAMOUS MASTERPIECE IN THE WORLD

The Mona Lisa is considered, together with The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece.
It’s the painting which more than others has fascinated critics and the public because of her enigmatic smile and the rarefied atmosphere of the landscape.

Leonardo’s Mona Lisa is so famous that when you see it at the Louvre museum perhaps its small size will disappoint you. But we have heard some many people talking about it so many times that we feel like we know her, but, basically, we don’t know anything about this painting.

Thus, here is a post containing 5 things to know about Leonardo’s Mona Lisa.

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