Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Johannes Vermeer
A Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps becau...
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Griet
A sixteen-year-old girl working as a servant in the Vermeer household, is the protagonist and narrator in the novel. Chevalier describes her as intelligent and perceptive, and that "she had an aesthetic eye that simply needed encouragement in order to flo...
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Pieter Van Ruijven
Pieter Claesz. van Ruijven (Delft, 1624 - Delft, August 7, 1674) is best known as Johannes Vermeers patron for the better part of the artists career.Van Ruijven was the son of a brewer and a Remonstrant. In 1653 he married Maria de Knuijt. The...
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Catharina Bolnes
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Maria Thins
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Tanneke
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Maertge Vermeer
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Cornelia Vermeer
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