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 ... Of course, it is a tad ironic to hail as cinematic art a production in which the plot resolution is a single still ...

The Mona Lisa, Girl with the Pearl Earring, the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer — these are famous paintings of women and are ...

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

Art manifests the liberal integrity of one’s emotions, feelings, and the undeniable freedom of expression. Widely celebrated artistic masterpieces like Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” Vincent van ...

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

Their research is in the journal Physics of Fluids To figure out what it was about Johannes Vermeer's painting, Girl with the Pearl Earring, that viewers find so captivating, the Mauritshuis ...