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Vermeer in the museum: Girl with a Pearl Earring in an ornate gold frame, behind a rope beside a bench. A detailed art printable; download the free PDF.
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Download PDFPrintA carved frame holding Girl with a Pearl Earring on a wall, a wall label, window light, a bench and a post with a rope barrier.
Make the frame gold and paint the walls a soft color so the painting stands out.
Design a museum label with the title, the artist and one sentence about the painting.
Vermeer had a very large family, with more than ten children.
Vermeer in the museum is a familiar sight today, with crowds lining up to see Girl with a Pearl Earring at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. Yet for a long time, hardly anyone remembered his name. Johannes Vermeer's story is about a painter who was nearly forgotten for some two hundred years.
Vermeer lived in Delft, in the Dutch Republic, during the 1600s, and he painted slowly and with extreme care. Only about thirty-five of his paintings survive. Little is known about his life, except that he also worked as an art dealer and left his family with heavy debts when he died.
After his death, his paintings were sometimes sold as works by more famous artists. In the 1800s, a French critic began studying them, wrote about them and drew attention to the beauty of his light. Since then, Vermeer's fame has only grown.
Museums protect their most valuable paintings with rope barriers, guards and special glass, and they light them carefully so the light does not fade the paint. Standing in front of a real masterpiece, taking your time, feels completely different from seeing it on a screen.
Idea by Blackline Press.
