But with great natural light, even everyday scenes become transcendent (and Vermeer’s geographer looks as if he’s had a mapping epiphany). Vermeer’s light is not the mysterious holy light of ...

Vermeer kept the painting with him until he ... Stãdel Museum in Frankfurt came through with The Astronomer’s counterpart, The Geographer (1669). He leans over a map, compass in hand, staring ...

but I’m struck by the details his painting shares with Vermeer’s “The Geographer,” painted in the same year, 1669: the single open window to the left, the leaded glass, the terrestrial ...

The hotly anticipated blockbuster of Johannes Vermeer, which reunites 28 out of 37 known paintings by the mysterious 17th-century Dutch master, has finally opened. Some Vermeer enthusiasts vented ...

The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book Vermeer’s Maps by Rozemarijn Landsman (The Frick Collection and DelMonico Books, DAP, October 11, 2022). The maps’ characteristics would ...

Praised for being a lone genius, Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is now believed to have had an associate — possibly an assistant or a student — who painted one of his most iconic works.

Judy Woodruff: There is big news in the art world. 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 ...

The disparate realms of art and science have often converged in attempts to explicate the rarefied and indescribably beautiful paintings of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675). Revered by his fellow ...