AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum will unite two iconic paintings from Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer early next year — The Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Milkmaid. In an unprecedented ...

On “Vermeer’s Masterpiece: The Milkmaid” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York & “Monet’s Water Lilies” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Conceptually, the two exhibits are very similar, ...

They called him the Sphinx of Delft. He was one of art’s most enigmatic figures, a painter whose serene interiors concealed ...

Detail of "The Milkmaid," a 1658-1659 oil painting on canvas by Johannes Vermeer presented to the press during the opening of the exhibition entitled "Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting," at ...

Even when his style is at its most self-effacing, smoothly drawing us into the moment, we remain, inevitably, outside. Johannes Vermeer, “View of Delft” (1660–61), oil on canvas (Mauritshuis, The ...

AMSTERDAM — Some art lovers make it a mission to visit and view as many works as possible by 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. Starting Friday, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is making their ...

"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 ...

His grinning subjects can be hard to take seriously. But a major exhibition argues that Frans Hals is an old master on par with Rembrandt and Vermeer. By Nina Siegal In her memoir “Thunderclap,” the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum ...