The painting Girl with Pearl Earring was created by which artist?

• A. Vermeer
• B. Picasso
• C. Bosch
• D. Stravinsky

Answer: (A)

This question tests your ability to identify the artist behind a famous painting. Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 17th-century work by Johannes Vermeer, a Dutch painter renowned for quiet interior scenes and his skillful use of light and texture. The image shows a girl with a pearl earring and a soft, luminous face, qualities that are hallmarks of Vermeer’s meticulous rendering and subtle tonal shifts. The other names belong to artists from different periods or fields: Picasso is a modern Spanish painter known for numerous innovations in the 20th century, Hieronymus Bosch was a Northern Renaissance painter noted for fantastical scenes, and Stravinsky was a composer, not a visual artist. So the painting is by Vermeer.