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56Girl with a Pearl Earring(painting, novel and lm)Fiction can also be useful for injecting culture with layers of meaning. Certainly, this is the case with the historical novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, written in 1999 by Tracy Chevalier14 and turned into a lm by Peter Webber in 200315 and then into a play by David Joss Buckley in 2008.The novel was inspired by the painting of the same name by Johannes Vermeer16 and the author explains how she would gaze at a poster of Vermeer’s painting, which she hung in her bedroom, and wonder what had led Vermeer to paint her like that. “There was a story there that was worth telling,” she says.Loving Vincenthttp://www.tchevalier.com/gwape/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_a_Pearl_EarringSo one of the most valuable paintings provided Chevalier with her plot. Who is the model and why did Vermeer paint her? What is she thinking as she looks out of the painting? Are her large eyes and enigmatic smile innocent or seductive? And why is she wearing a pearl earring?The novel is set in Delft in Holland where the painter lived and, through ction, Chevalier describes the circumstances that gave rise to the painting. But the story goes beyond the dates and details of the Vermeer’s life and the era he lived in, to o er a context that shines a di erent light on the masterpiece.http://bentoboxmanila.com/movies/trailers/loving-vincent- will-full-length-feature- lm-made-van-gogh-paintings/O cial site: http://join.lovingvincent.com Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47h6pQ6StCkOur painters talk about his work in Loving Vincent: https://youtu.be/1Vie6j_wxgQHere you can watch the artists painting each frame in oils on canvas: https://youtu.be/ iw9KqtYCsZQLoving Vincent (2017) is an animated lm by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman.17 The lm is unique in that it consists only of oil paintings – 65,000 frames in total, all painted by hand.TyöväenasuntomuseoThe Worker Housing Museum in Alppila, Finland, features small rooms depicting the history of daily life for working-class residents in Helsinki at the start of the 20th century.The museum operates in one of the oldest wooden houses built by the City of Helsinki for its workers. Nine stove rooms have been deco- rated to represent homes in various eras. The masonry stoves, washing commodes andSTORYTELLING AND CULTURAL DIFFUSION · EVA SNIJDERSSmart culture. Analysis of digital trends