VERMEERA View of Delft Fabritius was a highly talented artist, a good-looking man with a broad nose and full lips, the son of a schoolteacher and a midwife from Midden Beemster, a village in a ...

Dutch Golden Age artist Johannes Vermeer is known for creating iconic works like Girl With a Pearl Earring. But it was his View of Delft that French novelist Marcel Proust deemed “the most beautiful ...

Noted sky experts led by a Texas State University astronomer have put their heads together to analyze the specific time a masterpiece was painted. The group is made of retired and emeritus professors ...

THE DAILY PIC: I’m showing Johannes Vermeer’s great View of Delft, from the Mauritshuis Museum in the Hague, in memory of Walter Liedtke, a veteran curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art who died ...

The scene mostly likely shows the city on September 3 or 4, 1659 (or earlier), at 8 AM.

The enduring appeal of Johannes Vermeer — a new exhibition of his paintings has just proved a runaway success at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and transfers to London’s National Gallery this ...

The enduring appeal of Johannes Vermeer-a new exhibition of his paintings has proved a runaway success at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City and transfers to London’s National Gallery in June-is ...