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 ...

Vermeer’s oeuvre may be slim—only 35 surviving works are widely attributed to the Dutch painter—but it casts a long shadow. Little is known of the artist himself, so much so he was dubbed “Sphinx of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...