Vermeer is such a phenomenon that one can “dedicate an exhibition to him here without including a single one of his paintings“, says the director of the Delft’s Prinsenhof Museum, Janelle Moerman. To ...

NEW YORK -- Jan Vermeer is back, this time in context. The acclaimed exhibition of 20 paintings by the 17th-century Dutch master at the National Gallery of Art in 1995-96 presented him in glorious ...

Vermeer is back! The once obscure 17th Century Dutch master, whose 1995 exhibition at Washington’s National Gallery of Art drew mobs of museumgoers despite bitter winter cold, is the centerpiece of a ...

While all the attention is on the new Johannes Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam, the 17th-century painter’s hometown of Delft has an exhibition of its own, focusing on the life and background of one ...

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 ...

DELFT, Netherlands You don’t have to be in Delft long to see what inspired Johannes Vermeer. Meandering across bridges that stretch over canals and past storefronts and slender houses, the quaint ...

The career of 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer spans just 20 years, during which he produced fewer than 40 known paintings. Born in the small but artistically vibrant city of Delft, he ...

THE DAILY PIC: I’m showing Johannes Vermeer’s great View of Delft, from the Mauritshuis Museum in the Hague, in memory of Walter Liedtke, a veteran curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art who died ...

When Walter Liedtke describes some of Vermeer’s interior scenes as being both “Vogue and Architectural Digest for the 17th-century male consumer,” he is being only half-facetious. Liedtke, a curator ...

An Amsterdam art history professor claims to have discovered the location of one of only two townscapes by Dutch 17th century artist Vermeer, the Rijksmuseum said on Thursday. Professor Frans ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If museums take one lesson from the blow dealt by lockdown and subsequent limitations on visitor numbers, it ...