They called him the Sphinx of Delft. He was one of art’s most enigmatic figures, a painter whose serene interiors concealed ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. According to one account, Johannes Vermeer, the great 17th-century Dutch painter, was a genius so potent that a ...

This week, a new biography of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer was welcomed by critics while new titles in historical fiction and folk horror, as well as a “devastating” memoir, also received acclaim.

Secreted away beneath layers of paint in Johannes Vermeer’s “A Maid Asleep” (ca. 1657) sits a faceless man. The figure, now buried by rich, dark pigments in the top-right corner, was first detected in ...

Left: Half-restored version of Vermeer's "Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window" / Right: Unrestored version © Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden/Wolfgang Kreische ...

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 ...

Visitors at the Amsterdam museum crowd around one of the artist’s most famous works, The Milkmaid (1658-59). It was one of the 28 works assembled for the show that made it the largest-ever Vermeer ...