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 ...

Weber points to several of Vermeer's 37 surviving paintings as evidence of his adopted religion. Most obvious is his Allegory of the Catholic Faith (around 1670-74, Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vermeer is considered the greatest painter of his era, alongside Rembrandt (1606-1669 ... "The Little Street" is a masterpiece, as are all of Vermeer's other paintings that have survived, though there ...

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 ...

Vermeer’s hometown. The winning paintings created by the professional artists will be exhibited at the Mauritshuis. Nard Kwast, a painter from the central Dutch city of Apeldoorn, won the ...