Continuing the turban style of the wrap, it can be judged that she is not married to the butcher's son. The more complicated dress style hanging on the stairs on the left side of the picture can be judged not to belong to him, so he should still be a maid, not in his own home.
The chef's visit, the line is: "Finally found the wrong place." It can be seen that Griet should have changed many people.
About pearl earrings.
who sent it? Vermeer? Mother-in-law? Vermeer's wife? My personal judgment is a gift from the hostess. There may be many reasons.
First of all, shortly before the opening, the film shows the scene of the neighbor's bankruptcy being liquidated. Although there was a scene showing the overall economic decline of Dutch society at that time, it actually implied the fate of Vermeer itself. At that time, Delft was indeed a kind of artistic center of the Dutch school of painting, where new and cutting-edge artists from all over the world gathered here, including rising stars and frustrated painters. The historical Vermeer did die suddenly of illness shortly after painting Girl with Pearl Ring, leaving his wife and their eight children bankrupt. Therefore, I judge here that the earrings should be given by Mrs. Vermeer, who entrusted them to the cook who had terminated the employment relationship after the death of her husband.
Secondly, another important reason for the speculation above is the box of the earrings. Griet had a very delicate box when he pierced his ears and wore earrings, but when it was delivered to Griet, it was wrapped in the turban of the year. Perhaps it should be a phenomenon of hasty disposal in bankruptcy liquidation.
Of course there are tricky places. First of all, according to current historical research (the reason for emphasizing history is because the author of the original novel also wrote the novel half-truth based on current historical research), this painting is after Vermeer's death after all. There's still about four or five years left, and the plot in the movie is that the couple have a seventh child, and by the time Vermeer died, their eighth child had just been born. Secondly, the earrings that were sent were wrapped in the hood, and the seal was made of azure paint that Vermeer commissioned Griet to buy. Perhaps the film actually gave an ambiguous ending for the audience to guess.
In short, I prefer earrings from my wife. The paintings that Vermeer devoted all his energy to were not recognized by the art dealers and the high society of Delft at the time (this can be concluded from the phrase "lewd" by his wife when he saw the paintings, the sigh of the art dealer Raven when he saw the paintings, and historical facts) , After a few years of unhappy painting of model works, he still cannot get recognition. In addition, the overall economic situation is not good, there are too many children in the family, and his health is not good. He died suddenly within a few years. The wife was sad and gave the earrings away.
In addition, speculate on the state of mind of the hostess, a jewelry you love, a woman you envy, earrings worn by a woman who is closer to your husband than you, would you keep it?
About the painting:
Girl with a Pearl Earring, I thought it was the pinnacle of Vermeer's life. In fact, looking at Vermeer, it's really down and out. He was almost a perfectionist, and each painting took years to shoot. But unfortunately, perhaps due to the market environment, most of his paintings are model paintings. If you have seen his paintings, it should not be difficult to find that many of the paintings were completed in his studio, and the light enters through the window on the left. There are several reasons why these paintings are called pattern paintings: they use a basically consistent perspective structure: light on the left, same room scene. Don't use a real mannequin, all the components can be sketched from life, just press the head directly. This style of painting actually came from Milan at that time, the so-called European art center, but it was firmly opposed by the later Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer and other Flemish schools and the Dutch school.
But this kind of model painting just reflects an artistic appeal of the upper class at that time: you don’t have to sit there all day, have some fun, and paint some lively scenes. The unintentional words of art dealer Raven at the dinner party are actually a true portrayal of the atmosphere at that time.
At the end of the film, Raven's sigh, is he marvelling at the beauty of the painting, or is it a sigh that shows no understanding of the painting and Vermeer's poor fate? I think it's the latter. The first reason is that the painting did not sell in the end. It was not found in the warehouse of a certain gallery until a century later. When it was found, it was almost destroyed. The most important point: the painting was completely out of tune with the appetites of high society at the time.
At that time, the upper class of Delft was extremely conservative. Imagine that in the European society at that time, most of Germany, the Netherlands, and most of Belgium were Protestant, and these Catholics were extremely conservative! This can be seen from the turban, which a woman must strictly wrap when she is unmarried. According to the author of the original novel, the open lips of the person in the painting are actually a very unusual phenomenon. Because in the Dutch society at the time, open lips represented a character that was more open to sex, which is why Vermeer's wife used the word "lewd" to describe it when she first saw this painting.
Second, non-patterning: this painting, and Vermeer's other paintings, are very different. First of all, there is no very clear spatial perspective. In fact, the "vanishing point" of this painting is the earring, which was very radical at the time. It is difficult to see this treatment in Vermeer's other pattern paintings and in Milan at the time. This technique only became popular in the portrait painting of figures that emerged in the later Dutch school of painting. The painting also doesn't try very hard to describe the studio in the background. What posterity sees is just a pure black background (in fact, the natural color is dark green, but the chemical reflection of the pigment has turned black over a long period of time). This, on the contrary, highlights the eyes of the person in the painting. The author of the original novel once asked such a question, is her expression happy or frightened? Who did she see? what is it? Is she in love with Vermeer?
Because of this non-standardized and very radical painting technique, it was difficult for such a work to be accepted by the market at that time. Of course it can't be sold. This painting, neither Vermeer's wife (who only thinks the painting is lewd), Vermeer's mother-in-law (the painting is only for money), or the dealer Raven, can't see what the painting is trying to convey, and Griet sees it. Got it, the moment she saw the sketch, she decided to agree to put on earrings to draw, because at that moment, she was not fascinated by a sketch that had not yet matched the colors, but saw the truth in the sketch The kind of inner fear and joy coexisted.
The movie actually left me with a big question, Peter, what does it represent? I don't think Peter is such a good guy, as Griet found him and was picked up from a brothel, but how much place does the butcher's son have in Griet's mind? It's really hard to guess.
The above are all kinds of unreliable speculations about the movie. There are plans to read the original novel again, and many doubts should be able to be understood. But watching movies, everyone has their own feelings, some details may not need to go too deep, it is good to have some insights.
One more sentence, Vermeer is really a standard otaku, go out to sketch more, and paint the real market and nature, maybe the paintings will sell a lot! ! ! ～～～
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