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 ...

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

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

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

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

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