Girl with a Pearl Earring' was painted by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in 1655. The painting shows a woman wearing a ...

Both paintings are not simple genre scenes. They have allegoric meanings concerned with issues of vanity. The women in both pictures are momentarily motionless in the process of doing something: ...

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 ...