Vermeer’s The Art of Painting (1666-68), now a highlight of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, has long been regarded as his masterpiece. The artist retained the picture for the last years of his life ...

Praised for being a lone genius, Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is now believed to have had an associate — possibly an assistant or a student — who painted one of his most iconic works. The discovery ...

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 ...

The violence of his era can be found in his serene masterpieces — if you know where to look. “Mistress and Maid” at the Rijksmuseum exhibit in Amsterdam, the largest number of paintings by Vermeer ...