Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring Seduces at Frick
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Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” is the ultimate expression of unrequited love. Glowing in the pooled darkness, she turns toward us, looking down and over her shoulder with seductive eyes and moist, parted lips.
Yet her long, hanging turban betrays indifference. It swings toward us like a final curtain, indicating that she’s forever turning away, saying “No” to our affections.