Following the Rijksmuseum’s landmark Vermeer exhibition, a new book delves deep into the painter's oeuvre and reception.

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

The Frick’s first post-renovation show unites three Vermeer masterpieces that explore letter-writing and (maybe) love affairs ...

In Johannes Vermeer’s The Love Letter, painted around 1670, we see a woman dressed in the sort of yellow, fur-trimmed jacket we encounter repeatedly in the artist’s oeuvre. Sitting at the centre of a ...

It’s not often that art lovers have the chance to walk through a room full of paintings by the great Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. After all, there are only about 35 of his pieces still in ...

The artist left behind few clues about his life or intentions, but the paintings themselves teach the viewer new ways to see.

This month, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam opens its doors to the largest ever retrospective of Johannes Vermeer, bringing together 28 of the artist's 37 extant paintings. It is an intelligent ...

May 28—The intimate, scenes-of-daily-life paintings of the 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675 ) have been considered masterworks since his work was "rediscovered " by European ...

This is as close to perfection as museum exhibitions come: 28 oil paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) – three-quarters of those known to exist – at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam until ...

As an artist, he's hailed as a master for his use of light, rich pigments, and the serenity of his interior scenes; as a man, however, Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer is very much still a mystery.