Exploring Vermeer’s Delft
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 05.18.04 | 12:43 AM ET
The recent novel and movie based on Johannes Vermeer’s 1665 painting, “The Girl with the Pearl Earring,” are inspiring an upswing in visits to his hometown of Delft in Holland, according to a story in the International Herald Tribune. “Historians say 80 percent of the prosperous town of Vermeer’s time still exists,” the paper reports.