Nothing, ever,” wrote the Dutch painter Jan Veth in 1911, “has been painted in a more distinguished and careful way than this young woman.” The Rijksmuseum owns it, along with two others, The Milkmaid ...

She also highlights several of Vermeer's best known images, including the intense Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, and the elegant Young Woman with a Water Pitcher. The exhibition will be on view ...

Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours, sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue and yellow. He is particularly renowned for his masterly ...

The female figure is wearing a white headscarf, yellow bodice, red skirt, and a blue apron. Even though Vermeer has included a lot of details within the painting, the use of primary colors creates ...

The “girl with a pearl earring” might as well be holding a rosary off canvas. Johannes Vermeer, the 17th-century Dutch master who painted the work by that title, popularized by the 2003 film ...