Do you need to be the lady carrying the pearl earring in Vermeer’s masterpiece? The Mauritshuis in The Hague has hit on a novel concept for filling the empty spot on the wall when the well-known portray travels to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in February for a blockbuster Vermeer exhibition. Devotees of the portray are being invited to ship their very own variations of the picture for the My Woman with a Pearl initiative. “The principles? Nicely, there aren’t many,” states the Mauritshuis web site. “Be at liberty to shock us. A self-portrait in a shower towel turban, a painted iron or perhaps a pile of dishes: roughly something goes.”
The very best pictures submitted can be digitally displayed in a loop on the spot the place the portray usually hangs, whereas different chosen photographs can be proven elsewhere within the room. Vermeer followers can in the meantime get their Woman repair on Instagram the place the Mauritshuis has began the account @mygirlwithapearl.
