THE HAGUE \u2013 <\/p>\n
Johannes Vermeer\u2019s painting \u201cGirl with a Pearl Earring\u201d will be displayed in Japan later this year, the Dutch Mauritshuis museum said Thursday, a rare outing abroad for one of the world\u2019s most famous artworks.<\/p>\n
The 17th century masterpiece will be loaned to the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka in August and September while its home museum in The Hague is closed for renovations.<\/p>\n
\u201cGirl with a Pearl Earring is one of the most famous paintings in the world. … It is therefore loaned to other institutions only in highly exceptional circumstances,\u201d said the Mauritshuis.<\/p>\n
The last time the portrait was out on loan was in 2023 for a less exotic trip to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n
The painting went on a world tour in 2012-14 while major building work was ongoing at the Mauritshuis. Some 2.2 million people visited that exhibition, according to the museum.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the Mauritshuis, the Girl\u2019s trip to Japan is an unique opportunity for us to share her with the Japanese public, perhaps for the very last time,\u201d said Martine Gosselink, general director of the Mauritshuis, in a statement.<\/p>\n
Dubbed the \u201cMona Lisa of the North\u201d for the inscrutable expression of its subject, which recalls Leonardo Da Vinci\u2019s famous portrait, the painting attained global fame after inspiring a best-selling novel that was turned into a Hollywood film.<\/p>\n
The small canvas shows a young woman set on a dark background, her head turned toward the viewer and a pearl earring glinting from beneath her blue and cream turban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE HAGUE \u2013 Johannes Vermeer\u2019s painting \u201cGirl with a Pearl Earring\u201d will be displayed in Japan later this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[787,437,434,435,436,438,146,6545,85,46,11785,2325,12512,129053,864,4608],"class_list":{"0":"post-239292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-exhibitions","16":"tag-il","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-johannes-vermeer","19":"tag-museums","20":"tag-netherlands","21":"tag-netherlands-japan-relations","22":"tag-osaka","23":"tag-painting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}