No. 100497001

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Oreste Panzarella - Girl with "bright" pearl earring
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Oreste Panzarella - Girl with "bright" pearl earring

Make the masterpieces of art shine with a new light. This artist performs a poetic and revolutionary operation: he brings the masterpieces of art history back to life through a new, luminescent dimension. In the penumbra enveloping Vermeer's famous "Girl with a Pearl Earring," that iconic detail—the earring—suddenly emerges, now painted with fluorescent pigments. This is not an act of iconoclasm, but rather a profound homage: the artist extracts from the darkness of centuries precisely what made those masterpieces immortal, that particular detail that captured the gaze and imagination. The choice of fluorescent light is not casual. It is a metaphor for rediscovery, for revelation. Just as the masters of the past played with chiaroscuro and points of light to guide the viewer's eye. It is a work that speaks of memory and contemporaneity, of respect and innovation, of how the great classics continue to shine—literally—in the hands of those who know how to look at them with new eyes.

No. 100497001

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Oreste Panzarella - Girl with "bright" pearl earring

Oreste Panzarella - Girl with "bright" pearl earring

Make the masterpieces of art shine with a new light.

This artist performs a poetic and revolutionary operation: he brings the masterpieces of art history back to life through a new, luminescent dimension.

In the penumbra enveloping Vermeer's famous "Girl with a Pearl Earring," that iconic detail—the earring—suddenly emerges, now painted with fluorescent pigments.
This is not an act of iconoclasm, but rather a profound homage: the artist extracts from the darkness of centuries precisely what made those masterpieces immortal, that particular detail that captured the gaze and imagination.

The choice of fluorescent light is not casual. It is a metaphor for rediscovery, for revelation. Just as the masters of the past played with chiaroscuro and points of light to guide the viewer's eye.
It is a work that speaks of memory and contemporaneity, of respect and innovation, of how the great classics continue to shine—literally—in the hands of those who know how to look at them with new eyes.


Final bid
€ 200
Tatiana Ruiz
Expert
Gallery Estimate  € 300 - € 400

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