NEW YORK -- Jan Vermeer is back, this time in context. The acclaimed exhibition of 20 paintings by the 17th-century Dutch master at the National Gallery of Art in 1995-96 presented him in glorious ...

Vermeer is such a phenomenon that one can “dedicate an exhibition to him here without including a single one of his paintings“, says the director of the Delft’s Prinsenhof Museum, Janelle Moerman. To ...

While all the attention is on the new Johannes Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam, the 17th-century painter’s hometown of Delft has an exhibition of its own, focusing on the life and background of one ...

DELFT, Netherlands -- From atop the stone tower of the Nieuwe Kerk, I look down on the Great Market Square in the heart of the old town and the small universe of Dutch master Jan Vermeer. The long, ...

The career of 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer spans just 20 years, during which he produced fewer than 40 known paintings. Born in the small but artistically vibrant city of Delft, he ...

Dutch Golden Age artist Johannes Vermeer is known for creating iconic works like Girl With a Pearl Earring. But it was his View of Delft that French novelist Marcel Proust deemed “the most beautiful ...

DELFT, Netherlands You don’t have to be in Delft long to see what inspired Johannes Vermeer. Meandering across bridges that stretch over canals and past storefronts and slender houses, the quaint ...

THE DAILY PIC: I’m showing Johannes Vermeer’s great View of Delft, from the Mauritshuis Museum in the Hague, in memory of Walter Liedtke, a veteran curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art who died ...

An Amsterdam art history professor claims to have discovered the location of one of only two townscapes by Dutch 17th century artist Vermeer, the Rijksmuseum said on Thursday. Professor Frans ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If museums take one lesson from the blow dealt by lockdown and subsequent limitations on visitor numbers, it ...

Noted sky experts led by a Texas State University astronomer have put their heads together to analyze the specific time a masterpiece was painted. The group is made of retired and emeritus professors ...