The exhibit roughly coincides with the Frick Collection's exhibit "Vermeer's Love Letters" on June 18 through Sept. 8, which ...

Vermeer’s oeuvre may be slim—only 35 surviving works are widely attributed to the Dutch painter—but it casts a long shadow. Little is known of the artist himself, so much so he was dubbed ...

Even with the fervor around the exhibition, Fig noted that the museum did a good job with curating for crowd control considering the modest scale of Vermeer’s paintings in comparison to the ...

Scholars disagree about exactly how many paintings Vermeer left behind ... Vermeer as a methodical and sublime artist, a magical painter of light and luminous moments of 17th-century Dutch ...

"They helped in presenting his paintings as a kind ... colours that are the bedrock of a painter's craft – red lips and clothing of yellow and blue. In Vermeer's painting, the young woman ...

Like figures in other paintings, she concentrates intensely ... the explosion claimed dozens of lives, including the painter Carel Fabritius. Vermeer’s aunt sold tripe from a stand in the ...

This blockbuster at the Rijksmuseum, never to be repeated, pares the sphinx of Dutch art to the essence: 28 gemlike paintings. A detail of Johannes Vermeer’s “Mistress and Maid,” painted ...

There isn't an exact date of creation that coincides with Vermeer's most famous work, though many historians believe that it was painted around 1665, according to Britannica. Of the 36 paintings ...

Weber points to several of Vermeer's 37 surviving paintings as evidence of his adopted religion. Most obvious is his Allegory of the Catholic Faith (around 1670-74, Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Authenticating paintings is increasingly a scientific ... the work to be the product of someone likely close to Vermeer, but not the painter himself, may finally push the work out of contention ...