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 ...

Here’s a pearl of wisdom. After 360 years, an art historian has allegedly solved one of art history’s most enduring mysteries — the identity of the subject in the “Girl With a Pearl Earring” painting.

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 ...

It’s not often that art lovers have the chance to walk through a room full of paintings by the great Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. After all, there are only about 35 of his pieces still in existence, ...

He's considered one of the greatest artists of the Dutch Golden Age, but it took centuries for art historians to rediscover him and his delicate touch. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET ...

Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer was revered for his strikingly realistic 17th century paintings because they were able to capture light and detail like never before. Yet in 2006 fellow artist David ...

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 ...

The restoration of a 17th-century portrait by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer has uncovered a large portrait of Cupid in its background where once only a bare white wall stood. The painting, Girl ...

A show of 76 paintings from the Leiden Collection is on display at the Norton Museum of Art in South Florida. By Joseph B. Treaster What connects a favorite Aimee Mann song, a classic memoir and a ...