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

This week, a new biography of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer was welcomed by critics while new titles in historical fiction ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. According to one account, Johannes Vermeer, the great 17th-century Dutch painter, was a genius so potent that a ...

A major new Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam displays the artist's evocative and serene paintings of daily life – but they harbour secret, symbolic messages, writes Matthew Wilson.

Their daughter, named Magdalena, is 'likely' to be the girl wearing the pearl earring in the renowned oil painting, Andrew Graham-Dixon said in the Sunday Times ahead of the publication of his ...

The pandemic gave researchers at the National Gallery of Art an opportunity to closely examine paintings by Johannes Vermeer. They discovered one was painted by someone else. The collection of ...