The portrait also holds clues that connect the painting to Vermeer's other works, she said. In the image, Cupid is standing on a mask.

A trio of the 17th-century Dutch painter’s works featuring women writing and receiving letters is on display at the recently ...

The Girl with a Pearl Earring, one of the most enigmatic and well-known paintings in history, has left historians puzzled for centuries. Much about Johannes Vermeer's portrait, believed to have ...

X-ray of Johannes Vermeer’s A Maid Asleep (ca. 1656–57), in which a hidden figure of a man can be seen in the doorway. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

I know how difficult it is. Everyone wants your Vermeer.” So said Axel Rüger, the director of the Frick Collection, when ...

A painting of Saint Praxedis by Johannes Vermeer, the 17th-century Dutch master who painted "The Girl with the Pearl Earring," sold at auction on Tuesday for 6,242,500 pounds ($10.62 million ...

Johannes Vermeer's ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ is no less than a masterpiece of the Dutch Golden Age. Painted in the 17th century, this portrait captures the beauty of a young woman who is ...

Girl with a Pearl Earring, which concerns the Vermeer portrait of a delicate young woman with an intense gaze, was all sublimated passion and quiet decorum.

Final Portrait; Stanley Tucci's film about Giacometti tries to show the tortured creative process of a genius Ben Wishaw plays an aerospace billionaire who sets out to change the world in Against ...

A painting of Saint Praxedis by Johannes Vermeer, the 17th-century Dutch master who painted "The Girl with the Pearl Earring," sold at auction on Tuesday for 6,242,500 pounds, Christie's said on ...