Words to Know

The following list of words will help prepare your students to discuss the special exhibition Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis  with their classmates and their facilitator at the museum. Please choose those that are developmentally appropriate for your students.

• Dutch Golden Age

• Portrait

• Tronie

• Still Life

• Genre scene

• Landscape

• Seascape

• Camera Obscura