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 | | WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Earrings with a human face motif are part of the "The Spirit of Ancient Colombian Gold" exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Wednesday, November 9, 2005. | | | EARRING [earring] a personal adornment, sometimes an amulet, worn attached to the ear lobe. | | | Earrings were little used with the headdresses of the Middle Ages, but their use had a vigorous revival during the Renaissance and was also adopted by men; pearls were especially favored. |
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| | Girl With a Pearl Earring Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ GreatArtworks.com |
| | Vermeer's painting inspired the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, which imagines the circumstances under which the painting came to be created. | | | Girl with a Pearl Earring appears about halfway through the second stage of Blood Omen 2 on the wall of an inn. | | | Vermeer expert Arthur Wheelock claimed in a 1995 study that it is by 20th century artist and notorious forger Theo van Wijngaarden, a friend of the even more notorious Han van Meegeren. |
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