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 ...

DELFT, the Netherlands – The inn where Johannes Vermeer was born is long gone, the building replaced by one now with a shuttered computer store. His house and studio were demolished more than a ...

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 ...

DELFT, Netherlands You don’t have to be in Delft long to see what inspired Johannes Vermeer. Meandering across bridges that stretch over canals and past storefronts and slender houses, the quaint ...

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 ...

Vermeer is such a phenomenon that one can “dedicate an exhibition to him here without including a single one of his paintings“, says the director of the Delft’s Prinsenhof Museum, Janelle Moerman. To ...

An Amsterdam art history professor claims to have discovered the location of one of only two townscapes by Dutch 17th century artist Vermeer, the Rijksmuseum said on Thursday. Professor Frans ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It is such a treat to have some slow time on your hands. Years ago, in late spring, my university exams finished and the silly season ...

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 ...