They called him the Sphinx of Delft. He was one of art’s most enigmatic figures, a painter whose serene interiors concealed ...
Everybody loves a good mystery. That may explain why, for generations, art lovers have sought to learn the identity of the unknown subject in Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece, Girl with a Pearl Earring ...
Secreted away beneath layers of paint in Johannes Vermeer’s “A Maid Asleep” (ca. 1657) sits a faceless man. The figure, now buried by rich, dark pigments in the top-right corner, was first detected in ...
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Hidden Portrait Beneath Vermeer's ‘Girl with the Red Hat' May Be the Artist's Earliest Known Work
During the pandemic, the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, D.C., investigated four paintings attributed to Johannes Vermeer. During that time, it was discovered that the underpainting below ...
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