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

The painting had been donated as a Vermeer in 1942 ... If so, it would almost certainly have been his eldest child, Maria, who was born around 1654 and would have been aged 15 to 21 when the ...

A major new Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam displays the artist's evocative and serene paintings of daily life – but they harbour secret, symbolic messages, writes Matthew Wilson.

Girl With a Flute was previously believed to be a Vermeer original. National Gallery of Art At first glance, Girl With a Flute looks just like a Johannes Vermeer painting, with soft strokes and ...

He was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1961, the third child in a high-powered ... book (on such topics as the Vermeer family tree, the provenance of Vermeer paintings, and the disputes ...

"It fundamentally changes our understanding of Vermeer," Kaywin Feldman, the director of the National Gallery of Art, said in a press release. For a long time, scholars believed Vermeer worked alone.

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 ...

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 ...

Now on view in Amsterdam's H'ART Museum as part of From Rembrandt to Vermeer, the painting sits in the collection of Thomas Kaplan, the American billionaire and self-styled custodian of Dutch ...