Resumen de From image to word, and back to image again: textualising and filming Vermeer's paintings in "Girl with a pearl earring"
The intertextual dialogue with the art of painting figures prominently in contemporary fiction, as attested by the increasing number of works such as Tracy Chevalier's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (1999). In the context of the relevance of this "pictorial intertextuality", Chevalier's novel occupies an outstanding position because its links with Johannes Vermeer's aesthetic universe reflect the interest awakened by this artist in many contemporary writers. Moreover, the success and popularity of Girl... led to the making of a film version of the novel in 2004, in a process of rendering in images the pictures and artistic atmosphere verbalised by Chevalier. Bearing in mind this enriching exercise of pictorial- filmic intertextuality, the purpose of the present paper is to analyse the incorporation of Vermeer's production in Girl... and its film adaptation, with the final goal of tracing how artistic images are turned to words in Chevalier's novel, and then back to images in the visual medium of its film version.
