Street art · Paris

La jeune fille à la Mosaïque, Vermeer

By Mifamosa

Step onto a Paris sidewalk and a plain gas manhole cover suddenly winks back — its round grate reimagined as a turntable spinning a Vermeer-style pearl earring in red, a sly nod to 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' hiding in plain concrete sight.

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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