The first show presented in the recently restored museum’s new exhibition galleries features three works by the 17th-century ...

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 ...

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

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).

Vermeer’s small, quiet, enigmatic pictures are both loved and famous. There’s urgency and drama, but we don’t know the stories they tell, so they make us keep looking.

In a special exhibit featuring just three paintings, the Frick Collection in New York is inviting viewers to contemplate the ...

Maria de Knuijt, the woman with an eye for Vermeer's talent Art historians have long believed that the latter, Pieter van Ruijven—a wealthy citizen of Delft—contributed to Vermeer's success by ...

Vermeer’s main patron was probably a woman, according to curators of the retrospective which is opening at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam this week. She was Maria de Knuijt, the wife of Pieter van ...