Experts now believe Vermeer's principal aspiration was to become a dog portraitist. (all images generated using Midjourney) While taking inventory in preparation for an estate sale in Yorkshire County ...

The painting, in the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, shows a young woman dozing off at a table, sitting in front of a partially open door. Previous examination of the work had ...

What makes Johannes Vermeer aka “the Sphinx of Deft” so unique? Is it the way the artist, who lived from 1632 to 1675, bathes his subjects in natural light? The faces of his famous, frequently female ...

Next February, roughly 28 of the 35 paintings attributed to Johannes Vermeer will go on view at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum in a presentation that’s being billed as the most extensive survey of the Dutch ...

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 muted ...

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 painters ...

On an early spring afternoon outside the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s mecca of Dutch Golden Age painting, queues are stretching all the way up to the adjacent park square. Six weeks have passed since the ...

Works like “The Milkmaid” also are detailed from the conservator’s perspective, revealing that this tranquil scene of a servant making bread pudding started out with fancy decorations on the wall that ...