Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring has been on display at the Mauritshuis museum in the Hague since 1902. While ...

But the naked eye is nothing compared to a 3D microscope with 90x magnification, which digital microscope company Hirox recently proved while scanning Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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 ...

But Vermeer is not Griet's only admirer ... 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 ...

Johannes Vermeer's Girl With The Pearl Earring is one of the world's most popular paintings - and now scientists believe they know why, by measuring how the brain reacts when the work is viewed.

Johannes Vermeer's Girl With The Pearl Earring is one of the world's most popular paintings - and now scientists believe they know why, by measuring how the brain reacts when the work is viewed.

Girl With A Pearl Earring has been part of the collection of the Mauritshuis in the city of The Hague, Netherlands for over a century. This masterpiece by Johannes Vermeer will temporarily leave ...

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 ...

Griet comes to Vermeer's home as an illiterate servant but her duties take her to the Master's studio. Here she shows an instinctive affinity with the artistic process. (2003) Watch all your favourite ...

Tracy Chevalier's much-loved novel about the unknown model in Vermeer's famous painting, dramatised by Ayeesha Menon. Starring Khalid Abdalla, Hattie Morahan and Tom Goodman-Hill.

Tracy Chevalier's much-loved novel about the unknown model in Vermeer's famous painting, dramatised by Ayeesha Menon. Starring Khalid Abdalla, Hattie Morahan and Tom Goodman-Hill.