Tracy Chevalier suffers from an “affliction” that prevents her from evaluating paintings beyond mere face value. Further, she admits to be struggling with a condition that she defines as “gallery fatigue”, or art gallery stimulated boredom. It’s a bit ironic that Chevalier, author of numerous books including “Girl With a Pearl Earring”, has diagnosed herself with such an affliction. In fact, I find it hard to believe that Chevalier suffers from gallery fatigue, and I believe her self diagnosis is no more than a way of relating to her TED Talk audience.

In her TED Talk entitled “Finding the Story Inside the Painting”, Tracy Chevalier picks three paintings that have value to her, and have an interesting story to tell. One of those three,