In her most famous novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier focused on Vermeer's immortal portrait, plucking from it a story of creation rich in historically accurate and psychological convincing detail. Thus when the set of tapestries is unrolled there shimmers beneath its brilliant surface another shadowy net of threads, weaving together the loves and longings of all involved. Cartoonists, weavers, dyers, financiers, even those who trim the hem, all add a dash of their own desires to the mix. By accident or design, Nicholas's sexual fantasies leak into his designs - here is le Viste's wild daughter, Claude, and here Aliénor, the sweet blind daughter of the Brussels weaver there is the weaver's ambitious wife, Christine, and there - most cheekily - the saintly Geneviève herself.īut it is not just Nicholas's reckless dreams that stitch themselves among the warp and weft.
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