Though it’s interesting to parse what happened on March 18, 1990, when the theft was being perpetrated, what’s really ...

The world’s biggest art heist took place 35 years ago when 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner ...

That’s one takeaway from “Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry,” an exhibit (October 22 through January 21) at Washington’s National Gallery of Art.

The museum is presenting an exhibition on the importance of art in the work of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, Marcel Proust (Auteuil, 1871 - Paris, 1922), recognised both in ...

The scans also revealed that Vermeer made compositional changes during the painting process, such as the position of the ear. They also allowed researchers to trace where his pigments originated.

This blockbuster exhibition, which features 28 Vermeer paintings out of the some 37 of his works still known to exist, have been brought together from collections as far away as New York, Tokyo, ...