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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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