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

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 painting thought to be by Johannes Vermeer isn’t a Vermeer after all. The 17th-century Dutch master left behind few works, so take even one away and it’s a big deal. New technology is ...

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 ...

THE HAGUE — Climate activists targeted Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece “Girl with a Pearl Earring” with glue and liquid Thursday, but one of the world’s most iconic paintings was not ...

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.