Therefore, the plot of both Webber’s film and Chevalier’s novel is all about Chevalier’s own interpretation of the famous mysterious painting. She describes the girl's expression "to be a mass of contradictions: innocent yet experienced, joyous yet tearful, full of longing and yet full of loss." She began to think of "the story behind that look”, imagining it as directed at the painter. She had bought the poster as a nineteen-year-old and she noted the "ambiguous look" on the girl's face that left a lasting impression on her. Tracy Chevalier's inspiration for the novel was a poster of Jan Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. The work shows Vermeer’s technical expertise and interest in representing light (the reflection on her lips and on the earring). Vermeer’s subject is a generic young woman in exotic dress, a study in facial expression and costume. A young woman might have sat for Vermeer, but the painting is not meant to portray her or any specific individual in the same way that Leonardo portrayed an existing person (Lisa Gherardini). Unlike the Mona Lisa, however, Girl with a Pearl Earring is not a portrait but a tronie, a Dutch term for a character or type of person. Her enigmatic expression and the mystery of her identity has led some to compare her to the equivocal subject in Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
Instead, caught in a fleeting moment, she turns her head over her shoulder, meeting the viewer’s gaze with her eyes wide and lips parted as if about to speak. Unlike many of Vermeer’s subjects, she is not concentrating on a daily chore and unaware of her viewer. She wears a blue and gold turban, a pearl earring, and a gold jacket with a white collar beneath. Scarica Girl with a pearl earring - Tracy Chevalier e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING (painting: Jan Vermeer, novel: Tracy Chevalier, film: Peter Webber) Girl with a Pearl Earring represents a young woman in a dark space, an intimate setting that draws the viewer’s attention just on her.
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