A trio of the 17th-century Dutch painter’s works featuring women writing and receiving letters is on display at the recently reopened Frick Collection ...

Until now, we’ve known Vermeer as a methodical and sublime artist, a magical painter of light and luminous moments of 17th-century Dutch middle-class life.

Focusing on Vermeer’s work— only 37 of his paintings exist today--and his family life, the documentary explores his conversion to Catholicism, his artistic contemporaries and the wider world ...

Other paintings of Vermeer's include "Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window," "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher," "Woman with a Pearl Necklace" and "Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid." ...

A long-lost Cupid in one of Vermeer’s best-known paintings has been revealed after three centuries. But it’s far from the only unsolved mystery in the Dutch artist’s life.

Johannes Vermeer, the 17th-century Dutch master who painted the work by that title, popularized by the 2003 film adaptation of the 1999 novel, often drew on his Catholic upbringing and identity.

Scholars disagree about exactly how many paintings Vermeer left behind. The Rijksmuseum now resolutely puts the number at 37, the National Gallery in Washington at 34. Whichever it is, having 28 ...

Until now, we’ve known Vermeer as a methodical and sublime artist, a magical painter of light and luminous moments of 17th-century Dutch middle-class life.