Predominantly a painter of young women in closed rooms, the narratives are never clear, their thoughts are endlessly ...

The expensive Indo-Portuguese casket depicted in two works was likely a loan from a wealthy patron, a new book reveals ...

They called him the Sphinx of Delft. He was one of art’s most enigmatic figures, a painter whose serene interiors concealed ...

Researchers believe "Girl with a Flute" could not have been painted by Vermeer because it lacked his precision and paint application. Praised for being a lone genius, Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is ...

AMSTERDAM, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Twenty eight paintings by Johannes Vermeer go on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam this week, the largest ever exhibition of works of the 17th-century Dutch master, ...

For around three centuries, the girl reading a letter in the dimly-lit solitude of a Johannes Vermeer painting gave no indication of what the message contained. Facing an open window, her figure ...

“The most mysterious and beloved artist of all time.” Without a hint of apology, this is how the general director of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, Taco Dibbits, describes Vermeer. And it’s hard to disagree ...

May 28—The intimate, scenes-of-daily-life paintings of the 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675 ) have been considered masterworks since his work was "rediscovered " by European art ...

A painting thought to be by Johannes Vermeer isn’t a Vermeer after all. The 17th-century Dutch master left behind few works, so take even one away and it’s a big deal. New technology is allowing ...

Praised for being a lone genius, Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is now believed to have had an associate — possibly an assistant or a student — who painted one of his most iconic works. The discovery ...