The discovery of a hidden Cupid in a Dresden Vermeer is a vivid reminder of quite how important “pictures within pictures” are for appreciating the Delft master’s enigmatic genre scenes. Of ...

A hidden Cupid in Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, one of the world’s most famous paintings, is set to resurface on the canvas after two and a half centuries behind a layer ...

I know nothing about what motivated Bartolomeo Manfredi in 1613 when he painted “Cupid Chastised,” which hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago. ... Manfredi’s picture is about masculine shame.

After nearly three centuries behind a layer of paint, a naked Cupid has surfaced in one of the world’s best-loved artworks, drastically altering the background of a quiet interior scene.

Vermeer used images of Cupid in four of his paintings — including 'Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window' and 'The Milkmaid', in both of which the figure is believed to have been intended to ...

Since 1979, art historians have known that Johannes Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (circa 1657-1659) featured an overpainted figure of a Cupid in the background. Most assumed ...

Art World Experts Uncovered a Long-Lost Cupid Painting Underneath One of Vermeer’s Greatest Works—See the Fully Restored Version Here. Dresden's Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister unveiled the first ...

Of all the 937 paintings in the permanent collection of the Chicago Art Institute, two most important to Director Robert Bartholow Harshe are Rembrandt's Girl at the Open Half-Door and El ...