The story begins at Hampton Court Palace, where the heroine Alice Petherton and her friends are all Maids of Honor to Jane Seymour, the current Queen of England.
The Curiosity Keeper
Camille Iverness lives with her father in a curiosity shop [Iverness Curiosity Shop] on Blinkett Street in London.
The Miniaturist
The year is 1686 and Petronella Oortman has arrived in Amsterdam, the glittering utopia city with pomp and splendor.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
We have all seen that mysterious painting, the one known as “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” the seventeenth-century masterpiece of Johannes “Jan” Vermeer. One can even go so far to say that “Girl with a Pearl Earring” is “the Dutch Mona Lisa,” as some have taken to calling it.
Addendum: “Girl with a Pearl Earring”
In Girl with a Pearl Earring, there are various mentions regarding the paintings by Johannes Vermeer. In the addendum, I posted the paintings with the accompanying quotes from the book.