Sunday, May 19 2013, 19:24 PM

Art and Design

Finishing touch

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The last pieces of about 5,000 Lego blocks are added by elementary school girl Yuka Takahashi to complete a reproduction of Jonannes Vermeer's masterpiece "Girl with a Pearl Earring" in Tokyo on Thursday. A total of 380 children participated in a nine-day workshop to create the Lego art at the newly opened Legoland Discovery Center to mark the 380th anniversary of the Dutch painter's birth and the exhibition of the original painting from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis at Tokyo Art Museum. (AP/Shizuo Kambayashi)The last pieces of about 5,000 Lego blocks are added by elementary school girl Yuka Takahashi to complete a reproduction of Jonannes Vermeer's masterpiece "Girl with a Pearl Earring" in Tokyo on Thursday. A total of 380 children participated in a nine-day workshop to create the Lego art at the newly opened Legoland Discovery Center to mark the 380th anniversary of the Dutch painter's birth and the exhibition of the original painting from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis at Tokyo Art Museum. (AP/Shizuo Kambayashi)