The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book Vermeer’s Maps by Rozemarijn Landsman (The Frick Collection and DelMonico Books, DAP, October 11, 2022). The maps’ characteristics would have been ...

That may explain why, for generations, art lovers have sought to learn the identity of the unknown subject in Johannes ...

A major new Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam displays the artist's evocative and serene paintings of daily life – but they harbour secret, symbolic messages, writes Matthew Wilson.

The mystery was further complicated in 2023, when a Dutch art researcher published an article arguing that the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Guitar Player may be a Vermeer after all. The researcher, ...

Researchers believe "Girl with a Flute" could not have been painted by Vermeer because it lacked his precision and paint application. Praised for being a lone genius, Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is ...

GBH Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen returns to Boston Public Radio to share his weekly roundup of arts news. This week, find out about local, national and international arts and culture happenings, ...

Young, troubled and talented: Egon Schiele was the doomed rockstar of fin-de-siecle Vienna. Like many of his generation he died tragically young—killed by Spanish flu at the age of 28, just three days ...

It’s not often that art lovers have the chance to walk through a room full of paintings by the great Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. After all, there are only about 35 of his pieces still in existence, ...

-by Adrienne Dorsey / Special to LAist Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's painting Woman in Blue Reading a Letter is now on view at the Getty Center for its one and only North American appearance before ...