What if you could paint like Johannes Vermeer? What if everyone could? How would that transform our beliefs about artistic genius? Those are the questions at the heart of the brilliant new documentary ...

For generations, art historians believed Johannes Vermeer was a perfectionist who worked very slowly—a theory supported by his precisely placed brush strokes and relatively limited career output. But ...

The pandemic gave researchers at the National Gallery of Art an opportunity to closely examine paintings by Johannes Vermeer. They discovered one was painted by someone else. The collection of ...

This is as close to perfection as museum exhibitions come: 28 oil paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) – three-quarters of those known to exist – at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam until June 4th.

The expensive Indo-Portuguese casket depicted in two works was likely a loan from a wealthy patron, a new book reveals ...

If you’re ever in front of 40 and 42 Vlamingstraat in the Dutch city of Delft, you’ll be standing on the very spot depicted in Johannes Vermeer’s painting The Little Street (ca. 1658). Frans ...

It’s the largest-ever gathering of luminous masterpieces by the 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and the acclaim is as loud as the exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is memorable. A once ...

To many connoisseurs the question, “Is it a good painting?” does not occur until they have asked, “Is it genuine?” Last week such connoisseurs took note, with panic or delight, of a controversy which ...

For the first time in over two decades, the National Gallery of Art is displaying 10 Johannes Vermeer paintings together in the same place. On the third and final stop of its international tour, the ...

This remarkable exhibition is a unique chance to see together in one location 12 of Johannes Vermeer’s most precious paintings - about one-third of the entire surviving body of his work - alongside ...

Johannes Vermeer’s reputation is based on about 35 paintings and one of them is at the center of an exhibition in London. At the Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace, “A Lady at the Virginals with a ...