The Rijksmuseum's Vermeer symposium presented X-ray evidence that the artist painted over a hidden self portrait in his work "A Maid Asleep." ...

When you stand in front of Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With The Pearl Earring,” something extraordinary happens in your brain. The 17th-century Dutch painting has long mesmerized viewers, but scientists ...

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

Vincent Van Gogh painted three dozen self-portraits in just 10 years. That’s really a lot (there are about the same number of extant paintings by Johannes Vermeer). But now, miraculously, it ...

It's Johannes Vermeer's famous Girl With a Pearl Earring, only this time with Na'vi, robots and cellphones. ... Visual artist Wil Peerboom, like many others, opted for a self-portrait. ...

There are no known self-portraits, ... be the enigmatic painter who fathered 15 children and died in 1675 at just 43. Detail from "The Procuress" (1656) by Johannes Vermeer.

Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is known to have created 36 pieces of artwork during his life, including his most famous painting, "Girl with a Pearl Earring." The painting depicts a woman, but it's ...

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.

AMSTERDAM — The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum will unite two iconic paintings from Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer early next year — The Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Milkmaid. In an unprecedented ...

X-ray of Johannes Vermeer’s A Maid Asleep (ca. 1656–57), in which a hidden figure of a man can be seen in the doorway. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.