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

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 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.

The painting had been donated as a Vermeer in 1942. This downgrading follows a detailed study of the six paintings in Washington that at various times have been regarded as Vermeers. Three are now ...

suggesting in the Art Newspaper that Vermeer not only included his self-portrait in the painting, but that he would have been painting his reflection in a mirror on the wall. This might have been ...

And Girl With a Flute is something else. There are just around 35 paintings in the world definitively credited to Vermeer, an extraordinarily small number for such a renowned artist. He was the ...

The paintings in Fig’s contemplation series look at art lovers who look at art in assorted museums and galleries. “Contemplating Vermeer” is his most recent series, curated by Rangsook Yoon ...