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 ...

His grinning subjects can be hard to take seriously. But a major exhibition argues that Frans Hals is an old master on par with Rembrandt and Vermeer. By Nina Siegal In her memoir “Thunderclap,” the ...

While we might recognize most of these masterpieces and their artists, we probably don’t know much about the stories behind ...

AMSTERDAM — Some art lovers make it a mission to visit and view as many works as possible by 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. Starting Friday, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is making their ...

The Vacheron Constantin Les Cabinotiers Westminster Sonnerie Tribute to Johannes Vermeer offers a rare glimpse of what can be accomplished at the pinnacle of high watchmaking. The elite Swiss ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even when his style is at its most self-effacing, smoothly drawing us into the moment, we remain, inevitably, outside. Johannes Vermeer, “View of Delft” (1660–61), oil on canvas (Mauritshuis, The ...

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 ...

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 ...

What connects a favorite Aimee Mann song, a classic memoir and a Vermeer painting in the Frick Collection? The answer was there all along. By Paul Karasik The Frick’s first post-renovation show unites ...