A collection of essays offers fascinating insights into the struggle for loans, how the show was received by visitors, and ...

An expert argues that a legal document by the artist’s widow, from which the painting’s title is taken, is not referencing ...

Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is known to have created 36 pieces of artwork during his life, including his most famous painting, "Girl with a Pearl Earring." The painting depicts a woman, but it's not ...

For around three centuries, the girl reading a letter in the dimly-lit solitude of a Johannes Vermeer painting gave no indication of what the message contained. Facing an open window, her figure ...

Joe Fig, "Vermeer: The Milkmaid/Rijksmuseum" (2023), oil on linen mounted on MDF board, 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (26.7 x 31.8 cm) (all images courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York) ...

AMSTERDAM, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Twenty eight paintings by Johannes Vermeer go on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam this week, the largest ever exhibition of works of the 17th-century Dutch master, ...

"It looks like it came from Mars and landed down [on Earth]..." Kino Lorbrer has revealed an official US trailer for a Dutch documentary film titled Close to Vermeer, opening in art house US theaters ...

Researchers believe "Girl with a Flute" could not have been painted by Vermeer because it lacked his precision and paint application. Praised for being a lone genius, Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is ...

The National Gallery says the painting is not by the Dutch master, but the work is still in vast and often stellar company The National Gallery of Art’s painting “Girl With a Flute” has been hovering ...

Consider Supporting HoH: In 1946, the second world war had just ended, a Dutch artist and art collector stood trial in Amsterdam. His charge? Collaboration, for selling cherished cultural heritage to ...