Tag: Vermeers
Vermeer’s Girl and Orwell’s Beans
A person in his uniqueness: Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” embodies no type, no allegory, rather it only stands for itself. Image: akg-images What the Hague war crimes tribunal…
The Netherlands: jail for sticking to Vermeer’s painting
The two environmental activists who glued themselves to the glass of the painting “The Girl with a Pearl Earring” were sentenced to two months in prison. SourceAFP Three environmental activists…
Green activists attack Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring
Two people approached the painting, in a museum in The Hague, and a third threw an unknown substance on it. The work, protected under glass, was not damaged. Three people…
VIDEO – Environmental activists attack Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring”
Three people were arrested by Dutch police on Thursday after environmental activists targeted the painting The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, we learned from the Mauritshuis museum…
Glue Attack on Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring”
After van Gogh and Monet, Vermeer is now also hit: climate activists are hitting a museum in The Hague. Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring”. Peter Dejong/AP ran. /(Reuters)…
Hidden objects found in Vermeer’s The Milkmaid painting
As the Rijksmuseum busily prepares for the largest-ever exhibition of Vermeer’s work scheduled for 2023, experts have discovered a pitcher holder and basket hidden within the famous painting. Experts have…