"Girl With A Pearl Earring" is an intelligent, visually ravishing adaptation of Tracy Chevalier's novel about the Dutch master Vermeer and the model for one of his most famous paintings. Peter ...

“This blue pigment was more valuable than gold in the 17th century.” The pearl in Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring at 140-times magnification. Photo by Hirox Europe, Jyfel.

If it is possible to paint a movie, that is what director Peter Webber has done with “Girl With a Pearl Earring.” Or more to the point, that is what cinematographer Eduardo Serra and production ...

Johannes Vermeer (Delft 1632–1675 Delft) Girl with a Pearl Earring, ca. 1665 Oil on canvas, 17 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (44.5 x 39 cm) Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague Bequest of Arnoldus ...

And as Vermeer's edgy spouse, Davis bristles with an energy that matches Vermeer's own paintings, which is where the power of "Girl With A Pearl Earring" finally lies.

At the start of "Girl With a Pearl Earring," Griet (Scarlett Johansson) is shown peeling an onion, an image as metaphor rarely seen outside first-semester filmmaking classes. The determination in ...

And vice versa. With several “Pearl Earring” cast and crew members nursing an interest in classical art, discussions and debate over the painting filtered over the set.

Even today, more than 350 years after Johannes Vermeer painted “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” researchers are still learning fascinating, new details regarding the masterpiece.

The only mark against Girl with a Pearl Earring is that it occasionally lags. At times the pacing feels a little off, and the film may have benefited from a few nips here and there.

But “Girl With a Pearl Earring” is for the crowd that wouldn’t be caught dead reading a Georgette Heyer novel, or watching a movie like Bernardo Bertolucci’s sumptuous Renaissance farrago ...

Carefully composed, worshipfully ritualized and scrupulously self-conscious, "Girl With a Pearl Earring" unfolds as a series of meticulous tableaux vivants, but like those parlor pastimes, it ...