New advanced-imaging technology is making it easier to see what lurks below—at least in art-historical terms. In the run-up to the Rijksmuseum’s celebration of the 350th anniversary of Johannes ...

Two new books ask what Johannes Vermeer means today-and come up with different answers.

The documentary Tim's Vermeer follows inventor Tim Jenison on a singular project — the attempt to paint in the way the 17th century Flemish master Johannes Vermeer painted. Jenison was inspired by ...

Letter-writing and letter-reading have been favorite subjects of artists for centuries. Johannes Vermeer particularly favored the scene: of his minuscule oeuvre of some 35 paintings, six have ...

Seth Doane is an award-winning CBS News correspondent based in Rome, Italy since 2016. Doane has covered terrorist attacks and breaking news across Europe, traveled with Pope Francis as part of his ...

Johannes Vermeer, "Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window" (1657-59) before and after restoration. (© Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; photos by Klut/Estel and ...

What if you could paint like Johannes Vermeer? What if everyone could? How would that transform our beliefs about artistic genius? Those are the questions at the heart of the brilliant new documentary ...

A second masterpiece by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), "Diana and her Nymphs," will be exhibited alongside his ...

We think of Johannes Vermeer as a meticulous detailer of the everyday. But his paintings and those of his contemporaries have more to do with each other than life in the Dutch Republic, writes ...

We think of Johannes Vermeer as a meticulous detailer of the everyday. But his paintings and those of his contemporaries have more to do with each other than life in the Dutch Republic, writes ...