“Who is that girl?” – Exploring the 3D printed copy of “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and its digital presentation.

“People think of paintings as flat objects, but they are not. People also think that it is already there, then it will always be there. But various changes occur on the surface, cracks appear, colors fade and sometimes even disappear. Sometimes people attack the painting, which is absolutely terrible for humanity,” Hirox company representative Emiljens Leonhards told the media.

The “Girl with a Pearl Earring” is one of the most famous female faces in the history of art and a treasure of the Mauri-cheisa museum in The Hague. It took specialists 88 hours to scan all the details of the work and another 200 hours to 3D print it.

Now the 4-meter-high copy is part of the new exhibition “Who is that girl?” the central element, but no less important is the digital presentation. It shows the process of creating the painting, its possible appearance in 1665, when Vermeer applied the last stroke of paint to the canvas, and the subsequent changes.

Color pigments that traveled to Europe even from Mexico and Afghanistan are of no less interest. But the most important thing, as in any real work of art, is the author’s creative spark, which gives it its unique appeal.

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