Vermeer’s The Art of Painting (1666-68), now a highlight of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, has long been regarded as his masterpiece. The artist retained the picture for the last years of his life ...

Van Ruijven died in 1674, Vermeer the following year, Maria in 1681, and Magdalena passed away in 1682. Of course, there are ...

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

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 ...

A team of curators, conservators and scientists from the National Gallery of Art say Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Flute was actually painted by... Praised for being a lone genius, Dutch artist ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. One of Johannes Vermeer’s most famous paintings, “The Guitar Player,” has gone on show ...

This room exists, not in Amsterdam or Paris or even New York, but in West Palm Beach, where the Norton Museum of Art has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...