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 ...

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 ...

A possible new addition to the oeuvre of Johannes Vermeer, the famed Dutch Golden Age master for whom there are believed to be only 37 known works, may have been hiding in plain sight in the ...

Museumgoers viewing art—that’s usually the finish line in the fine artist’s creative process. But for Joe Fig, it’s just the beginning. In Fig’s latest exhibition, Contemplating Vermeer, the audience ...

Johannes Vermeer, Woman with a Pearl Necklace, c. 1662-65. Oil on canvas, 20 3/16 x 17 3/4 in. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie/Jörg P. Anders It’s paintings like Pearl Necklace, and the ...

"Lady with a Guitar" is a replica or close duplicate of Johannes Vermeer's "The Guitar Player," lacking only the ringlets and the finishing layers of paint that would give it more depth and color. New ...

Johannes Vermeer, “A Lady Writing” (ca. 1665), oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., gift of Harry Waldron Havemeyer and Horace Havemeyer, Jr., in memory of their father, Horace ...

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 ...

What makes Johannes Vermeer aka “the Sphinx of Deft” so unique? Is it the way the artist, who lived from 1632 to 1675, bathes his subjects in natural light? The faces of his famous, frequently female ...