Here’s a pearl of wisdom.
After 360 years, an art historian has allegedly solved one of art history’s most enduring mysteries — the identity of the subject in the “Girl With A Pearl Earring” painting.
Art expert Andrew Graham-Dixon dropped this alleged bombshell in a recent Times of London article ahead of the release of his new book “Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found.”
In it, it was disclosed that the artist who painted the iconic opus in 1665, Johannes Vermeer, almost exclusively worked for Dutch husband and wife Pieter Claeszoon van Ruijven and Maria de Knuijt, in Delft, Netherlands, who were part of a radical Christian sect called the Remonstrants, the Telegraph reported .
Therefore, Graham-Dixon believes that the pensive-looking girl in the painting — notable for her exotic-looki