A "once-in-a-lifetime" Vermeer exhibition 05:28. As an artist, he's hailed as a master for his use of light, rich pigments, and the serenity of his interior scenes; as a man, however, Dutch ...

As an artist, he's hailed as a master for his use of light, rich pigments, and the serenity of his interior scenes; as a man, however, Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer is very much still a mystery ...

In “View of Delft” (circa 1660), Vermeer hangs the sky with low cumulus clouds. He paints dampness as well as light. Art work by Johannes Vermeer / Courtesy Mauritshuis / Rijksmuseum ...

This is an exhibition that encourages, fosters and invites close looking and deep thinking,” Frick curator Aimee Ng said at a ...

Right: Girl With a Flute, attributed to Vermeer in the Rijksmuseum exhibit, and to the “studio of Johannes Vermeer” by the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., which owns it (National Gallery ...

This is as close to perfection as museum exhibitions come: 28 oil paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) – three-quarters of those known to exist – at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam until ...

The intimacy of Johannes Vermeer’s domestic scenes can seem almost voyeuristic. Some of his figures look at you as if turning towards an intruder.

The most popular museum exhibition in 2023 so far is the blockbuster show of works by artist Johannes Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the most complete collection of his works ever ...

Johannes Vermeer, Woman in Blue Reading a Letter (1662–64). ... Another similar one is The Astronomer, which is in the collection of Louvre but not in this show in Amsterdam.

To the world’s timekeepers, the leap second is a kludge, a bane, a pain in the little hand. Now they’re ditching it. Will our days ever be the same? “The Astronomer,” a 1668 painting by ...