You never know what you don’t know, until, suddenly, you do. Who doesn’t love Vermeer’s 1669-70 painting, “The Lacemaker,” with its soft light and aura of beatific, if not virginal ...

Art connoisseurs flock to Paris' Louvre to see iconic works like the "Mona Lisa." However, many other less-crowded historic ...

Vermeer’s paintings are few in number and scattered over three continents, ... In The Lacemaker, for example, the threads in the woman’s fingers are hair-thin and sharp, ...

The Rijksmuseum is understood to have a promise of a loan of Vermeer’s ‘The Lacemaker’ for a blockbuster exhibition starting in February next year. Earlier this week, the museum announced that 27 of ...

The Maes came first (1655, as opposed to Vermeer’s 1670), and offers a full inventory of minutia in the life of the lacemaker, depicting her tools, her earnings (a money bag hangs under the ...

Standing in front of the tiniest of paintings, “The Lacemaker’ (measuring 9.5 inches by 8.25), the curator explains how Vermeer saw things differently from his contemporaries — and how he ...

One of Vermeer’s masterpieces “The Lacemaker” is too small to sell, really. ... Vermeer has been described over the years as a populist, a storyteller and a feminist.

The show Vermeer’s Secrets (8 October-8 January 2023) ... These are The Lacemaker, which is based loosely on the 1669-70 original in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, and The Smiling Girl.