NEW YORK -- Jan Vermeer is back, this time in context. The acclaimed exhibition of 20 paintings by the 17th-century Dutch master at the National Gallery of Art in 1995-96 presented him in glorious ...

Andrew Graham-Dixon creates a rich sense of the worlds Vermeer inhabited — but his speculations about the art are a stretch ...

Vermeer is such a phenomenon that one can “dedicate an exhibition to him here without including a single one of his paintings“, says the director of the Delft’s Prinsenhof Museum, Janelle Moerman. To ...

An art historian says he has identified the long-mysterious sitter in "Girl With a Pearl Earring" by Johannes Vermeer.

While all the attention is on the new Johannes Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam, the 17th-century painter’s hometown of Delft has an exhibition of its own, focusing on the life and background of one ...

Vermeer is back! The once obscure 17th Century Dutch master, whose 1995 exhibition at Washington’s National Gallery of Art drew mobs of museumgoers despite bitter winter cold, is the centerpiece of a ...

Dutch Golden Age artist Johannes Vermeer is known for creating iconic works like Girl With a Pearl Earring. But it was his View of Delft that French novelist Marcel Proust deemed “the most beautiful ...

THE DAILY PIC: I’m showing Johannes Vermeer’s great View of Delft, from the Mauritshuis Museum in the Hague, in memory of Walter Liedtke, a veteran curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art who died ...

DELFT, Netherlands You don’t have to be in Delft long to see what inspired Johannes Vermeer. Meandering across bridges that stretch over canals and past storefronts and slender houses, the quaint ...

The 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer is perhaps best known in the popular imagination for Girl with a Pearl Earring, which inspired both a 1999 novel and a 2003 film adaptation of said novel ...

In it, it was disclosed that the artist who painted the iconic opus in 1665, Johannes Vermeer, almost exclusively worked for ...