Louvre agrees to lend The Lacemaker, one of its most important paintings, to Fitzwilliam in Cambridge ...

To call the great Dutchman's paintings photographic is to miss the torrents of feeling raging beneath their cool, glassy surfaces ...

Since the opening of the Rijksmuseum’s Johannes Vermeer exhibition, the Amsterdam museum has been overwhelmed by visitor demand for the once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster. The institution has had to stay ...

“The most mysterious and beloved artist of all time.” Without a hint of apology, this is how the general director of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, Taco Dibbits, describes Vermeer. And it’s hard to disagree ...

What makes Johannes Vermeer aka “the Sphinx of Deft” so unique? Is it the way the artist, who lived from 1632 to 1675, bathes his subjects in natural light? The faces of his famous, frequently female ...

In his long artistic career, Salvador Dalí had more than a few obsessions. Two of them — Vermeer’s painting The Lacemaker and rhinoceros horns — intersected one day at the Vincennes Zoo in Paris. Dalí ...

It’s the largest-ever gathering of luminous masterpieces by the 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and the acclaim is as loud as the exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is memorable. A once ...