Portal:The arts/Featured picture/February, 2009

Johannes Vermeer The Girl With The Pearl Earring (1665) by Johannes Vermeer a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours, and sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.