If all of the above makes Girl with a Pearl Earring sound unappealing ... to throw herself into the arms of Pieter (Cillian Murphy), the butcher's boy who is wooing her. The implication that ...

took extraordinary steps to protect Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring” and other works central to its collection. Wilhelm Martin, the museum’s director at the time, removed it ...

Rob de Heer talks next to his artwork, one of 60 pieces exhibited and inspired by the famous "Girl with a Pearl Earring," painting by Johannes Vermeer, at The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague ...