The stakes are reputationally high, because no matter how many tea towels, place mats and fridge magnets are printed with ...

NEW YORK -- Jan Vermeer is back, this time in context. The acclaimed exhibition of 20 paintings by the 17th-century Dutch master at the National Gallery of Art in 1995-96 presented him in glorious ...

An art historian says he has identified the long-mysterious sitter in "Girl With a Pearl Earring" by Johannes Vermeer.

They lived first in her family's house on the Oude Delft canal, before moving to the Doelenstraat. By 1654 he had been in Delft for four years, and for the past two years a member of the Delft Guild ...

An art restorer says he has solved a centuries-old mystery with the discovery of the studio of the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. The second best-known Dutch painter of the period after ...

DELFT, Netherlands, June 30 (UPI) -- "Girl with a Pearl Earring," ran for 15 months in the Lumen Theater in Delft before being taken off a week ago. The quiet little film about the Dutch painter ...

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The 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer is perhaps best known in the popular imagination for Girl with a Pearl Earring, which inspired both a 1999 novel and a 2003 film adaptation of said novel ...