GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING | JOHANNES VERMEER italian-renaissance

GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING | JOHANNES VERMEER italian-renaissanceConsidered by many to be "the Dutch Mona Lisa" or the "Mona Lisa of the North", this beautiful painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer features, well a girl with a pearl earring. The painting was completed around 1665 and is on display in the Mauritshuis Gallery in the Hague, the Netherlands.

This world famous painting is not shown in a museum

painted around 1893

Located on the ceiling of The Sistine Chapel in Vatican City

The Persistence of Memory is one of the most recognizable pieces in art history

a girl with a pearl earring

this one is by far the most famous as it is his last self-portrait and one of the few that depicts him without a beard

Seeing this masterpiece in the small monastery is truly one of the best attractions Milan has to offer

this famous artwork is on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

The painting was painted in Paris and is Inspired by the bombing of Guernica in Spain during the Spanish Civil War

Starry Night is one of the most well known paintings in modern culture

and it is also thought that this wonderful painting was inspired by Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Even though Van Gogh painted many portraits of himself