For centuries,the Girl with a Pearl Earring, has captured the fascination of audiences worldwide. The painting, created by ...

Dutch still-life paintings omitted the ‘human cost of colonial warfare and slavery’ that underlay the bounty these canvases ...

Following the Rijksmuseum’s landmark Vermeer exhibition, a new book delves deep into the painter's oeuvre and reception.

“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 ...

May 28—The intimate, scenes-of-daily-life paintings of the 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675 ) have been considered masterworks since his work was "rediscovered " by European ...

The show Vermeer’s Secrets (8 October-8 January 2023) will present all four of the NGA’s paintings by or attributed to Vermeer—the two that have been questioned and two others that are fully ...

When you stand in front of Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With The Pearl Earring,” something extraordinary happens in your brain.

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 ...

And so, as the art world looks forward to an exhibition being billed as the largest exhibit ever of Vermeer’s work — 28 paintings in one place — it will also enjoy one of the discipline’s ...

“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 ...

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 ...