famous painting by vermi and the girl with the pearl earring is glad right now will be told by matvey ilyichyonokf the art of understanding art cycle. one of the most mysterious personalities in the entire history of dutch painting belongs to his brush no less mysterious work portrait of a woman pearl earring girl girl in a turban. all this is the name of the same work, and the whole thing is in the genre, the picture is attributed to the portrait of throne. this is a painting in which the artist draws his models to the shoulders or to the waist as a model , most often anonymous paintings go without a title. the main element of this genre is the presence of the sitters of an exotic subject. in this case, a turban. the earring on the canvas also raises questions. experts say that a stone of this size does not occur in nature. a similar phenomenon appears in the works of vermeer at least eight times, perhaps the master deliberately enlarged the earring. there are several versions of who is actually depicted on the canvas. the first version is the daughter, vermeia, romaria or maria ruina's friend,