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 ...

Martine Gosselink, director of the Mauritshuis, highlights: "We see reproductions of famous paintings everywhere, ...

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 ...

Opening Nov. 17 at Sarasota Art Museum is an exhibition titled “Contemplating Vermeer.” Artist Joe Fig created 16 new ...

162.6 x 124.5 cm. (64 x 49 in.) ...

Art lovers, this one's for you! This Halloween, dress as the iconic painting, "Girl with a Pearl Earring," using a few pieces of fabric to make a head wrap and shawl and air-dry clay to make the ...

Griet was the fascinating title character in her novel “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” which brought to life and continues to ...