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Girl with a pearl earring

History and fiction merge seamlessly in [this] novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. through the eyes of sixteen-year-old Griet, the world of 1660s Holland comes ... alive in this ... imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. -Back cover.

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  • "History and fiction merge seamlessly in [this] novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. through the eyes of sixteen-year-old Griet, the world of 1660s Holland comes ... alive in this ... imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. -Back cover."@en
  • "In 1664, sixteen-year-old Grier enters the Vermeer household as a servant. Daughter of a Delft tile maker, she has a natural eye for color and design. Daily, she cleans the studio, learning much about how Vermeer sees the people he paints. As his attention focuses on her, she slowly becomes one of his subjects."
  • "Girl with a pearl earring tells the story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl, who becomes a maid in the house of the painter Johannes Vermeer. Her calm and perceptive manner not only helps her in her household duties, but also attracts Vermeer's attention. He slowly draws her into the world of his paintings and ultimately has her sit for him as a model. In this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings, Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place. History and fiction merge seamlessly in a luminous tale of artistic vision, sensual awakening, and daily life in the Netherlands of the 17th-century."@en
  • "Girl with a pearl earring tells the story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl, who becomes a maid in the house of the painter Johannes Vermeer. Her calm and perceptive manner not only helps her in her household duties, but also attracts Vermeer's attention. He slowly draws her into the world of his paintings and ultimately has her sit for him as a model. In this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings, Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place. History and fiction merge seamlessly in a luminous tale of artistic vision, sensual awakening, and daily life in the Netherlands of the 17th-century."
  • "Imagine the young woman in Johannes Vermeer's mysterious painting "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" as a sixteen-year-old Dutch girl named Griet who sparks the interest of the artist when she becomes a maid in his turbulent household."
  • "A novel in which history and fiction are combined to provide a fascinating picture of 1660's Holland."@en
  • "When an accident at work destroys her father's livelihood, 16 year old Griet is forced to become a maid to a rich family. Her master is the famous painter Vermeer. One of her duties is to clean his studio, during which she realises that she also has an eye for the colour and light needed to create Vermeer's masterpieces. When he himself discovers her talent, Griet's precarious status within the household comes under stress, and as his fascination grows, so do Griet's problems."@en
  • "Historical novel on the corruption of innocence, using the famous painting by Vermeer as an inspiration. Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeenth century Holland, obtains her first job, as a servant in Vermeer's household."@en
  • "History and fiction merge seamlessly in Tracy Chevalier's luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Through the eyes of sixteen-year-old Griet, the world of 1660s Holland comes dazzingly alive in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings."@en
  • "A richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is the story of 16-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius, even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil."
  • "The life of Dutch painter Jan Vermeer is barely known to us, but this imaginative book lays out a fantasy of what might have been."
  • "In 1664, sixteen-year-old Griet enters the Vermeer household as a servant. Daughter of a Delft tile maker, she has a natural eye for color and design. Daily, she cleans the studio, learning much about how Vermeer sees the people he paints. As his attention focuses on her, she slowly becomes one of his subjects."@en
  • "Griet, a sixteen-year-old maid, becomes the muse of the great seventeenth-century Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer."
  • "Episodis de la novel·la."
  • "PLAYAWAY. An international bestseller, this is a story of an artist's desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence. 17th century Holland. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, their growing intimacy spreads tension and deception in the ordered household and, as the scandal seeps out, into the town beyond. Tracy Chevalier's extraordinary historical novel about the price of genius is a contemporary classic."
  • "A poor seventeenth-century servant girl knows her place in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, but when he begins to paint her, nasty whispers and rumors circulate throughout the town."@en

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