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 ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first time Gregor Weber saw a Vermeer, he fainted. Decades on from that quasi-religious experience, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week I wrote about Vermeer, now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. No one’s surprised it’s a blockbuster. Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) painted around 45 works, and only 38 are still with us ...