Johannes Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring at the Mauritshuis museum Lex van Lieshout / ANP via Getty Images. Something isn’t right about Johannes Vermeer’s iconic Girl With a Pearl Earring.

Johannes Vermeer’s iconic painting ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ is back on display at The Hague’s Mauritshuis museum after being targeted by anti-oil environmentalists in the Netherlands.

FILE- Visitors take pictures of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (approx. 1665) during a preview for the press of the renovated Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands, June 20, 2014.

FILE- Visitors take pictures of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (approx. 1665) during a preview for the press of the renovated Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands, June 20, 2014 ...

"Girl with a Pearl Earring" started as a piece of artwork, and was later brought to life, given a fictional background story in a 1999 book and a 2003 movie. (Mark Sullivan/WireImage for Mikimoto ...

Last week, dynamo Dede Wilsey dazzled in her Harry Winston diamond earrings while entertaining patrons at the de Young Museum. But as this black-tie dinner up in the museum's Hamon Tower ...

Scientists have discovered the strange reason why 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' is so captivating, and it could explain the appeal of other great works of art like the Mona Lisa.

The Girl with a Pearl Earring, one of the most enigmatic and well-known paintings in history, has left historians puzzled for centuries. Much about Johannes Vermeer's portrait, believed to have ...

Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With A Pearl Earring” was the latest target of environmental activists Wednesday when a man appeared to attempt to glue his own bald head to the 357 ...

FILE- Visitors take pictures of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (approx. 1665) during a preview for the press of the renovated Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands, June 20, 2014 ...