This is an exhibition that encourages, fosters and invites close looking and deep thinking,” Frick curator Aimee Ng said at a ...

Red Grooms gave artist Joe Fig a bit of insight he’s been turning over ever since. The toughest part of artmaking, the pop artist told him, “is that moment where it appears like you are doing the ...

One of those is “Lady with a Guitar” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. For decades, it has been identified as a “Copy after Vermeer” in the Vermeer catalog, and was believed to have been painted by ...

And last year, the Rijksmuseum announced it had found a few more errant objects — a jug holder and fire basket — lurking behind the woman in the museum’s “The Milkmaid.” Vermeer didn't ...

Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is known to have created 36 pieces of artwork during his life, including his most famous painting, "Girl with a Pearl Earring." The painting depicts a woman, but it's ...

The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum will unite two iconic paintings from Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer early next year — The Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Milkmaid ...

There are two exceptions to this rule: Portrait of a Young Woman (ca. 1666-67) and what is arguably Vermeer’s best known painting, Girl With a Pearl Earring (1665).

A detail of Johannes Vermeer’s “Mistress and Maid,” painted between 1664 and 1667. This yellow coat trimmed with fur recurs throughout his paintings, on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam ...

The lady who appears in six of Johannes Vermeer’s paintings wearing an elegant yellow jacket apparently trimmed with ermine (stoat) could never have afforded such a sumptuous garment.

AMSTERDAM — The Netherlands’ most famous museum will unite two iconic paintings by Johannes Vermeer — “The Girl With a Pearl Earring” and “The Milkmaid” — in an unprecedented ...

A woman takes images of a projection of Vermeer's The Milkmaid during a press conference at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. In an unprecedented blockbuster ...