Vermeer’s oeuvre may be slim—only 35 surviving works are widely attributed to the Dutch painter—but it casts a long shadow. Little is known of the artist himself, so much so he was dubbed ...

Scholars disagree about exactly how many paintings Vermeer left behind ... Vermeer as a methodical and sublime artist, a magical painter of light and luminous moments of 17th-century Dutch ...

"They helped in presenting his paintings as a kind ... colours that are the bedrock of a painter's craft – red lips and clothing of yellow and blue. In Vermeer's painting, the young woman ...

This blockbuster at the Rijksmuseum, never to be repeated, pares the sphinx of Dutch art to the essence: 28 gemlike paintings. A detail of Johannes Vermeer’s “Mistress and Maid,” painted ...

Vermeer is such a phenomenon that one can “dedicate an exhibition to him here without including a single one of his paintings“, says the director of the Delft’s Prinsenhof Museum ...

During Vermeer’s active years as a painter, the fields of the arts and sciences were inseparable. Excerpt from Vermeer’s Maps by Rozemarijn Landsman. Published by The Frick Collection and ...

Authenticating paintings is increasingly a scientific ... the work to be the product of someone likely close to Vermeer, but not the painter himself, may finally push the work out of contention ...

As he wrote in his book, “A painter’s own children were never ... in Binstock’s argument for assigning the late misfit paintings to Maria Vermeer. The two paintings are clearly—Binstock ...

Looking at paintings this way doesn’t spoil them ... Lawrence Gowing is right that Vermeer is a painter of light. He is also, exquisitely, a painter of time. But let us find the trouble now.