Secrets and Silence, on view at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, has broken records for an exhibition staged outside London ...

Magdalena’s parents had moreover owned most of Vermeer’s paintings. The 20 pictures in her death inventory amount to nearly ...

Scientists and historians at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., have deduced that a painting attributed to Johannes Vermeer, one of four in the museum’s collection, wasn’t painted by the ...

A painting thought to be by Johannes Vermeer isn’t a Vermeer after all. The 17th-century Dutch master left behind few works, so take even one away and it’s a big deal. New technology is allowing ...

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 ...

New advanced-imaging technology is making it easier to see what lurks below—at least in art-historical terms. In the run-up to the Rijksmuseum’s celebration of the 350th anniversary of Johannes ...

Joe Fig, "Vermeer: The Milkmaid/Rijksmuseum" (2023), oil on linen mounted on MDF board, 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (26.7 x 31.8 cm) (all images courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York) ...

“The most mysterious and beloved artist of all time.” Without a hint of apology, this is how the general director of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, Taco Dibbits, describes Vermeer. And it’s hard to disagree ...

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 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 ...

Louvre agrees to lend The Lacemaker, one of its most important paintings, to Fitzwilliam in Cambridge ...

Praised for being a lone genius, Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is now believed to have had an associate — possibly an assistant or a student — who painted one of his most iconic works. The discovery ...