Enigmatic Beauty: Vermeer’s Girl Meets Byron’s ‘She Walks in Beauty

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“Experience the fusion of Johannes Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ with Lord Byron’s timeless poem ‘She Walks in Beauty.’ This short video celebrates serene and captivating beauty through art and poetry.

She Walks in Beauty
by Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair’d the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

Credits:
Artwork: “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer (c. 1665)
Poem: “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron (1814)