On 16 May 1696, 21 paintings by “the late J. Vermeer of Delft” appeared at auction in Amsterdam. Described as “being the best he ever ...

This week, a new biography of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer was welcomed by critics while new titles in historical fiction and folk horror, as well as a “devastating” memoir, also received acclaim.

Here’s a pearl of wisdom. After 360 years, an art historian has allegedly solved one of art history’s most enduring mysteries — the identity of the subject in the “Girl With a Pearl Earring” painting.

This book is going to revolutionize the way we understand Vermeer Peter CareyThe paintings of Johannes Vermeer of Delft are some of the most beautiful even sublime in the history of art Yet like the ...

Director Edgar Wright is on to discuss new dystopian action thriller The Running Man. And to mark Commemoration Day, a reading of The Mother by May Herschel Clark, from a new collection of women's ...

They called him the Sphinx of Delft. He was one of art’s most enigmatic figures, a painter whose serene interiors concealed as much as they revealed. Soon after his death in 1675, unscrupulous dealers ...

THE identity of the Girl with the Pear Earring painting has been discovered. The famous oil painting by the Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer, is of a young girl in 1665 – whose identity had not been ...