Vermeer’s maid who’s asleep is not drunk, her pearls not on her ears but on the table, for her my admiration can’t be shrunk.

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 ...

It is easy to treat the Dutch artist as an agreeable intimist—a transcriber of domestic niceties. But he grew up in a world ...

Currently ensconced in the Frick Collection’s new Ronald S. Lauder Exhibition Galleries, “Vermeer’s Love Letters” is an intimate installation of three staggeringly beautiful works by the Dutch artist ...

Seth Doane is an award-winning CBS News correspondent based in Rome, Italy since 2016. Doane has covered terrorist attacks and breaking news across Europe, traveled with Pope Francis as part of his ...

Johannes Vermeer, “View of Delft” (1660–61), oil on canvas (Mauritshuis, The Hague; all images courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, unless otherwise noted) AMSTERDAM — If you don’t already have tickets to ...

The documentary Tim's Vermeer follows inventor Tim Jenison on a singular project — the attempt to paint in the way the 17th century Flemish master Johannes Vermeer painted. Jenison was inspired by ...

A look at the first Vermeer painting sold in more than 80 years, its history, and the research involved in its attribution. Johannes Vermeer, A Young Woman Seated at the Virginal, c.1670, sold for ...