Celebrity Hair & Makeup Artist Mikel Cain and Photographer Chirasak Rattanapanyakun recreate Johannes Vermeer original 1664 Masterpiece “The Woman with a Pearl Necklace”

Photographer: Chirasak Rattanapanyakun

Model: Brittany Lee Hellmeister

Creative Director: Don George

Additional links and information on Johannes Vermeer

WIKIPEDIA

VERMEER’S PAINTING

• COMPLETE VERMEER CATALOGUE
• Vermeer’s paintings in scale
• museum locations of Vermeer’s work
• geographical distribution of Vermeer’s work
• Vermeer’s signatures
• Vermeer paintings in their frames
• Vermeer’s clients and patrons
• missing Vermeers
• the dissius auction
• eyewitness accounts of Vermeer’s paintings
• Vermeer’s lost self-portrait
• erroneous attributions and fakes
• the procuress: evidence for a Vermeer self-portrait

VERMEER’S PAINTING TECHNIQUE

• Vermeer’s palette
• details of Vermeer’s painting technique
• Vermeer and the camera obscura
• virtual reconstruction of woman with a water pitcher

TIMELINES

• Vermeer’s life
• dutch   painters
• european painters

MUSIC IN VERMEER’S TIME

• music, musical instruments in the times of Vermeer, with  mp3 audio files
• the carillon: Vermeer’s musical companion

E.V. INTERVIEWS

• index of interviews