Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The Guitar Player" is thought to be one of only 37 known paintings by Johannes Vermeer, an artist who specialized in depicting ...

Girl With a Flute was previously believed to be a Vermeer original. National Gallery of Art At first glance, Girl With a Flute looks just like a Johannes Vermeer painting, with soft strokes and muted ...

Google has added a new Pocket Gallery feature to its Google Arts & Culture app, enabling users to view all of the artist Vermeer's artwork in the same place...virtually, that is. This provides 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 most mysterious and beloved artist of all time.” Without a hint of apology, this is how the general director of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, Taco Dibbits, describes Vermeer. And it’s hard to disagree ...

"It looks like it came from Mars and landed down [on Earth]..." Kino Lorbrer has revealed an official US trailer for a Dutch documentary film titled Close to Vermeer, opening in art house US theaters ...

Johannes Vermeer, “View of Delft” (1660–61), oil on canvas (Mauritshuis, The Hague; all images courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, unless otherwise noted) AMSTERDAM — If you don’t already have tickets to ...

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 / ...

Art historians have known about the Cupid’s existence since an X-ray analysis in 1979. Paint samples were analyzed in the 1960s, revealing nothing unusual about the artist’s choice of materials. He ...

The museum will present “Girl With a Flute” as a Vermeer work in an exhibition next year despite a contrary finding by the National Gallery of Art, which owns the painting. By Graham Bowley The ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. One of Johannes Vermeer’s most famous paintings, “The Guitar Player,” has gone on show ...