Johannes Vermeer appears to us as a rather secular artist, capturing the pleasures of life. But a new biography, due to be published later this month, presents him as a staunch upholder of the ...

Sources: Girl With a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer / Mauritshuis ... by-painting analysis that put chronology and the family’s biography in the foreground. Such a timeline, with its emphasis ...

Of all the great painters of the golden age when the small, soggy Netherlands arose as an improbable global power, Johannes Vermeer is the most beloved and the most disarming. Rembrandt gives us ...

Praised for being a lone genius, Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is now believed to have had an associate — possibly an assistant or a student — who painted one of his most iconic works.

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has secured an unprecedented 28 paintings by Johannes Vermeer for its blockbuster exhibition this month (10 February-4 June). Depending on which authority you chose to ...

A work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, once thought to be painted by Johannes Vermeer is now regarded as a misattribution or fake, according to research revealed in a new exhibition.

The National Gallery of Art announced Friday it will reveal new findings about Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer to be examined at the Vermeer’s Secrets exhibition, opening Saturday. The findings ...

Rob de Heer talks next to his artwork, one of 60 pieces exhibited and inspired by the famous "Girl with a Pearl Earring," painting by Johannes Vermeer, at The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague ...

Girl With a Flute was previously believed to be a Vermeer original. National Gallery of Art At first glance, Girl With a Flute looks just like a Johannes Vermeer painting, with soft strokes and ...

AMSTERDAM, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Twenty eight paintings by Johannes Vermeer go on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam this week, the largest ever exhibition of works of the 17th-century Dutch ...

By Graham Bowley The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam announced on Tuesday that among the treasured works to be featured in its expansive exhibition on Johannes Vermeer next year would be a painting ...