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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

127 x 75 cm. (50 x 29.5 in.) ...

The King is celebrating his 76th birthday with a visit to a surplus food festival. Charles is treating it as a normal working ...

CCTV captures moments before a worker died after being 'squashed' against a wall by a lorry at a Ginsters pasty factory.

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 ...