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Scientific investigations of Vermeer’s The Milkmaid reveal what the Rijksmuseum describes as “startling discoveries”. Advanced techniques have uncovered two objects in the picture which the artist ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. One of Johannes Vermeer’s most famous paintings, “The Guitar Player,” has gone on show ...

A major new Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam displays the artist's evocative and serene paintings of daily life – but they harbour secret, symbolic messages, writes Matthew Wilson.

Johannes Vermeer in his own day catered to a local clientele and so when he died, indebted, at age 43, with maybe 45 paintings to his credit, his name faded into obscurity until the late 19th century.

A painting by 17th century Dutch master Vermeer, that was once dismissed as fake, has been sold in London for £16m. Young Woman Seated at the Virginals, thought to have been painted in about 1670, was ...