What you need to knowThe National Gallery's summer exhibition, Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure has opened to the public. The exhibition displays key works of 17th century Dutch painter ...

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To call the great Dutchman's paintings photographic is to miss the torrents of feeling raging beneath their cool, glassy surfaces ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The Guitar Player" is thought to be one of only 37 known paintings by Johannes Vermeer, an artist who specialized in depicting ...

Guards accompany them when they travel. Crowds flock to them when they arrive. Johannes Vermeer’s exquisite paintings of young women in gleaming domestic settings are the vigilantly watched and amply ...

In modern times, Johannes Vermeer is lauded as the preeminent genre painter of the Dutch Golden Age. But this wasn’t always the case: Until the 19th century, two of Vermeer’s contemporaries—Gabriel ...

KUSA – Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is considered by some to be the greatest painter of all time. His work mainly focused on a middle-class life and a domestic home life. Vermeer died in 1675, many ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The subject of the documentary “Tim’s Vermeer” isn’t Johannes Vermeer, the 17th century Dutch artist renowned for his luminescent paintings. The true protagonist of the movie is Tim -- Tim Jenison, ...