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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.