High-tech scanning techniques used by geologists, planetary scientists, drug companies and the military are revealing secrets of how artists created their masterpieces. A museum guest photographs ...
Girl With a Flute was previously believed to be a Vermeer original. National Gallery of Art At first glance, Girl With a Flute looks just like a Johannes Vermeer painting, with soft strokes and muted ...
Dresden's Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister unveiled the first full image of “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window,” featuring a restored Cupid, today. Johannes ...
A painting thought to be by Johannes Vermeer isn’t a Vermeer after all. The 17th-century Dutch master left behind few works, so take even one away and it’s a big deal. New technology is allowing ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. One of Johannes Vermeer’s most famous paintings, “The Guitar Player,” has gone on show ...
Johannes Vermeer, "Woman Holding a Balance" (c. 1664) (all images courtesy National Gallery of Art) A popular adage states that one should never compare their insides to someone else’s outsides — that ...
"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 ...
“The most mysterious and beloved artist of all time.” Without a hint of apology, this is how the general director of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, Taco Dibbits, describes Vermeer. And it’s hard to disagree ...
(CNN) — One of Johannes Vermeer’s most famous paintings, “The Guitar Player,” has gone on show alongside its “twin” in a new exhibition. “Double Vision: Vermeer,” which opened at London’s Kenwood ...