Girl With a Pearl Earring is Tuesday’s classic film

Peter Webber’s Girl With a Pearl Earring is this week’s Classic Tuesdays film presented by the National Gallery at Castellani House.

The 2003 film gives a fictionalized account of the Dutch 17th century artist Jan Vermeer’s painting of one of his most well known works, which now hangs in the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, a press release from Castellani House said.

The ‘Girl’, Griet (Scarlett Johansson) daughter of a blind artist must support her family by working as a maid and goes to