Dutch museum picks Filipino engineer’s unique take on Vermeer’s famous ‘girl’

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Out of 3,500 entries, Pinay artist Maria Glensie Hombrebueno's 'Babaeng nakaperlas' is one of 170 artworks selected by a world-class museum in the Netherlands.

in the Hague announced an open call early in 2023 for creatives around the world to reinterpret Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” 32-year-old Filipino engineer Maria Glensie Hombrebueno thought it was a good time to revisit her childhood love affair with art.

By the time Hombrebueno submitted her take on “the world’s most famous girl,” she learned that the museum had received around 3,500 entries. Hombrebueno said her “girl” isn’t real, meaning she didn’t base her work on any live model or photograph. Grandma spoiled her with all the art materials she asked for. Her father also taught her the basics of drawing and sketching portraits.MUSEUM EXHIBIT. Maria Glensie Hombrebueno’s “Babaeng nakaperlas” hangs on the wall of a gallery at the Mauritshuis, a Hague museum, with other uniique takes on Johannes Vermeer’s famous painting of the “Girl with a Pearl Earring”.

 

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