Johannes Vermeer’s painting Girl with a Pearl Earring is a display a girl and a completely empty dark background. The girl is disconnected from an identity there is no inclination as to who she is but Vermeer has painted some visual signs that could conjure up a hypothesis of what the girl is representing in the painting.
The title of the painting Girl with a Pearl Earring immediately brings attention to the pearl earring. The pearl earring elegantly dangles’ slightly below the girl’s ear lobe this placement of the pearl earring makes it almost unnoticed. The positioning and coloring of the pearl earring causes it to blends in along her neckline becoming apart of the girl. The pearl is large in size it is somewhat