New advanced-imaging technology is making it easier to see what lurks below—at least in art-historical terms. In the run-up to the Rijksmuseum’s celebration of the 350th anniversary of Johannes ...
Vermeer’s The Art of Painting (1666-68), now a highlight of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, has long been regarded as his masterpiece. The artist retained the picture for the last years of his life ...
A great exhibition, as art historian Gregor Weber contends, should change your view of the world. As outgoing head of the Department of Fine Arts at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, earlier this year he had ...
"Lady with a Guitar" is a replica or close duplicate of Johannes Vermeer's "The Guitar Player," lacking only the ringlets and the finishing layers of paint that would give it more depth and color. New ...
Johannes Vermeer, Mistress and Maid, ca. 1664-67; oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 31 in. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr., coutesy of the Frick Collection A woman sits on the right, clad in a fur-trimmed yellow coat, ...