Mix-up: La ragazza con l’orecchino di perla – Vermeer Animali It is kept at the

It is kept at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia

Un dipinto che ci ricorda come è facile farsi trascinare dalle passioni

Can a bird feel like joking and put on a cat hat

or perhaps from a distant future

Mix-up: La ragazza con l’orecchino di perla – Vermeer Animali It is kept at theIs the beautiful girl in this painting the painter's lover? Or perhaps his daughter? Her large liquid eyes make us wonder about her identity and thus make us reflect on ours as well, as if it were a mirror capable of stripping us bare. The pearl earring, jewel of aristocratic ladies, is worn by a girl with humble clothes: it seems to tell us that we can find jewels in all our actions, in all our conscious moments in life. Painted in the name of beauty