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It's art imitating art imitating art.
The new film Girl with a Pearl Earring is based on the novel by Tracy Chevalier -- a fictional account of the life of a young woman pictured in the famous Vermeer painting.
Chevalier, whose most recent book The Lady and the Unicorn is also based on a work of art (The Unicorn Tapestries), says she wrote Girl with a Pearl Earring after years of staring at a poster of the painting in her bedroom.
Now that the Chevalier book that was the Vermeer painting has become director Peter Webber's film -- starring Scarlett Johanssen in the title role -- NPR's Lynn Neary reports on what has been lost -- and added -- in the translation.
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