Referencing the joking rivalry between the two paintings, Mauritshuis Director Martine Gosselink told AFP: 'People sometimes call "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" the Mona Lisa of the North ...

Rob de Heer talks next to his artwork, one of 60 pieces exhibited and inspired by the famous "Girl with a Pearl Earring," painting by Johannes Vermeer, at The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague ...

took extraordinary steps to protect Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring” and other works central to its collection. Wilhelm Martin, the museum’s director at the time, removed it ...

The winners were displayed in a replica frame in the exact spot where “Girl with a Pearl Earring” usually hangs.