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 ...

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 ...

Over the next two weeks, a team of international experts will study Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring in a specially constructed studio in The Hague’s Mauritshuis museum. The institution has ...

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 ...

During an Oct. 23 preview gallery tour, Kaplan described Rembrandt as the “universal artist,” whose abilities and ...

Next February, roughly 28 of the 35 paintings attributed to Johannes Vermeer will go on view at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum in a presentation that’s being billed as the most extensive survey of the Dutch ...

For non-painters and non-art historians like me, the title of this documentary, “Tim’s Vermeer,” is at first a total mystery. What is a “vermeer,” what is a “Tim” and what does it mean that a Tim ...

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 ...

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 ...