A trio of the 17th-century Dutch painter’s works featuring women writing and receiving letters is on display at the recently ...

Object Details author Snyder, Laura J. Subject Vermeer, Johannes 1632-1675 Knowledge Science Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van 1632-1723 Contents Prologue: More than meets the eye -- Counterfeiter of nature -- ...

Forty years later, an art dealer to the French crown, Joseph Paillet, an early champion of Vermeer’s work, got his hands on The Astronomer. But Paillet’s assurances of rarity and quality were ...

A "once-in-a-lifetime" Vermeer exhibition 05:28. 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 ...

Right: Girl With a Flute, attributed to Vermeer in the Rijksmuseum exhibit, and to the “studio of Johannes Vermeer” by the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., which owns it (National Gallery ...

Much has been written, but little is known about iconic Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, painter of iconic paintings and crowd pleasers such as The Milkmaid and Girl with a Pearl Earring.His small ...

The intimacy of Johannes Vermeer’s domestic scenes can seem almost voyeuristic. Some of his figures look at you as if turning towards an intruder.

Girl With a Pearl Earring, Vermeer's most famous painting, will be on display at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum starting next month. Vincenzo Pinto / AFP via Getty Images Seeing a Johannes Vermeer ...

The pandemic gave researchers at the National Gallery of Art an opportunity to closely examine paintings by Johannes Vermeer. They discovered one was painted by someone else.