Girl with a Pearl Earring

Summary\n miss with a ivory Earring, is castigate in the year 1664, when Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer is well-known, but had hit an esthetic roadblock. Sixteen year old Griet, who would eventu altogethery be Vermeers inspiration for his superiorwork, Girl with a Pearl Earring, is living with her family in the Dutch city of Delft. Her father went stratagem through an accident at work and therefore he isnt able to work any(prenominal) more. For this reason Griet is forced to relegate up work as a maid for the noted painter Vermeer and his Catholic family. already when he observes her preparing vegetables, Vermeer discovers her artistic natural endowment. However, this talent has no meaning for a maid.\nAs soon as she arrives at Vermeers home, she gets her occupations assigned by the senior maid, called Tanneke. Griet has to do housework of any kind. However, her special task is to clean Vermeers studio without moving anything. The items which he is just line drawing hav e to stay scarcely at their place. Catharina is Vermeers wife. When she sees Griet the first clip she already dislikes her because her husband pays Griet all his at ten-spottion and she is jealous. Griet has a circumstances of work with the five children, four girls and one boy, from a tot up to a ten year old. Cornelia, one of the girls, is real moody and always wants to torment Griet.\nAt the beginning the unharmed situation is very drop for Griet because everything is very new to her and she is aspect alone because she cant laugh with anybody. Griets exactly place of refuge is the studio, which she commonly has to clean. She likes being there and contemplates the pictures the master is painting.\nFrom the butchers son Pieter, who is interested in Griet, she learns that her own family have been sic in quarantine because the raise has broken out in their street. At the end of the summer, Agnes, her ten-year-old sister, dies of the plague.\nOn Sundays it is difficult fo r Griet and her brother Frans, an apprentice, to sojourn her p...