A centuries-old mystery surrounds Vermeer's painting, The Girl with a Pearl Earring. A fresh scientific perspective may now reveal what makes it so captivating. Neuroscientists have measured the brain ...

You have to love her whether you want to or not.' 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' was painted by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in ...

This makes you look at the painting longer than others ... she explained. However, the Girl With The Pearl Earring has three such focal points - the eye, mouth, and pearl - and Gosselink said ...

This makes you look at the painting longer than others ... she explained. However, the "Girl With The Pearl Earring" has three such focal points -- the eye, mouth, and pearl -- and Gosselink ...

This makes you look at the painting longer than others ... she explained. However, the Girl With The Pearl Earring has three such focal points - the eye, mouth, and pearl - and Gosselink said ...

This fictitious backstory to the creation of Vermeer's best-known painting looks so impressive, and so precisely mimics the colours the 17th-century Dutchman used, it's a while before you realise ...

If all of the above makes Girl with a Pearl Earring sound unappealing, then it shouldn't. Like Lost in Translation, the other film currently featuring the prodigious Scarlett Johansson ...

A new research project at the Mauritshuis in The Hague hopes to unlock some of the mysteries that surround Vermeer’s masterpiece. How pranayama, the ancient art of controlled yogic breathing ...

Griet comes to Vermeer's home as an illiterate servant but her duties take her to the Master's studio. Here she shows an instinctive affinity with the artistic process. (2003) Watch all your favourite ...

Girl With A Pearl Earring has been part of the collection ... “So many people are inspired by this world-famous painting,” Paul Schuiling, cultural partnerships advisor for Nationale ...