Paintings conservator Dr. Abbie Vandivere ’01 discusses her work on the iconic Vermeer painting.

In a lecture titled “Who’s That Girl? Scientific Examination of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring,” Dr. Abbie Vandivere ‘01, paintings conservator at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, will reveal some of the iconic painting’s secrets. Why doesn’t the girl have eyelashes? Was the background always so dark? As head researcher for the “Girl in the Spotlight” project, Dr. Vandivere and her team used state-of-the-art technologies to examine Vermeer’s painting process and create a 13-foot, 3D reconstruction of the painting that recaptures the girl’s original appearance. Introduced by James Steward, the Nancy A. Nasher–David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director of the Princeton University Art Museum

Speakers

Abbie Vandivere ’01, Paintings Conservator, Mauritshuis

James Steward, Nancy A. Nasher–David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director, Princeton University Art Museum

[Image credit: Abbie Vandivere. Photo: Ivo Hoekstra, Mauritshuis]

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