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

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 ...

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.

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. ...

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.