Johannes Vermeer's signed painting The Guitar Player (left) and its mysterious doppelgänger (right) are on display together for the first time at London's Kenwood House. Historic England / ...

Secreted away beneath layers of paint in Johannes Vermeer’s “A Maid Asleep” (ca. 1657) sits a faceless man. The figure, now buried by rich, dark pigments in the top-right corner, was first detected in ...

International equipment manufacturer Vermeer has unveiled a full-scale prototype of its Interlune excavator, a machine designed to ingest 100 metric tons of rocks and ...

Evidence of 17th-century air pollution has helped date a rare Vermeer painting. Conservation of Young Woman seated at a Virginal has revealed the presence of feldspar particles between layers of paint ...

A great exhibition, as art historian Gregor Weber contends, should change your view of the world. As outgoing head of the Department of Fine Arts at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, earlier this year he had ...

The most popular museum exhibition in 2023 so far is the blockbuster show of works by artist Johannes Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the most complete collection of his works ever, drawing ...

After 16 weeks, the record-breaking Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum has concluded, leaving an indelible mark on the art world. The blockbuster exhibition of paintings by Dutch Master Johannes ...

Since the opening of the Rijksmuseum’s Johannes Vermeer exhibition, the Amsterdam museum has been overwhelmed by visitor demand for the once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster. The institution has had to stay ...

For the second time in just one month, Google’s search engine has allowed an AI-generated fake of a famous artist’s work to rise to the top of its search results. Earlier this May, we reported that ...

A Vermeer painting at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has long been known to hide an image of a man, which was painted over by the artist. Now, new investigations have revealed that the hidden ...