LONDON – The first painting by the Dutch Old Master Johannes Vermeer (search) to be sold at an auction in decades was bought for more than $30 million Wednesday. The 10 inch-by-8 inch picture, "Young ...

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 ...

Benjamin Binstock opens the Vermeer’s Daughter symposium at NYU’s Cantor Film Center on May 18. (all images by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) Imagine for a moment that in the ...

NORFOLK, Va. – A 1665 portrait by Johannes Vermeer of Delft will be on display at the Chrysler Museum of Art from November 1 – December 18. The painting, ‘A Lady Writing,’ is one of only 35 known ...

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 ...

For around three centuries, the girl reading a letter in the dimly-lit solitude of a Johannes Vermeer painting gave no indication of what the message contained. Facing an open window, her figure ...

TORONTO — Tim Jenison is an imaging software engineer who talks like Oracle founder Larry Ellison but looks like artist Chuck Close. He works secretly, almost stealthily, and in this way Jenison, with ...

LONDON (AP) — Verily, it's a Vermeer. Christie's auction house says science has confirmed that a disputed painting is the work of Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. The painting could fetch about $13 ...

The facades of two red brick houses stand out against a cloudy sky. In a narrow passageway between them a housemaid bends over a container, framed by a doorway. She's been scrubbing; the water is ...

A hushed interior by Vilhelm Hammershøi, a recent acquisition at the Art Institute of Chicago, brings Vermeer into the modern ...