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.