Major restoration on Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window shows a large studded goblet later covered by a green curtain

Dresden exhibition will include Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window along with key international loans and works by other Dutch Golden Age artists

Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures post, held by Desmond Shawe-Taylor, will be ‘lost and held in abeyance’

The show promises to be “one of the most spectacular” in the newly renovated museum's history

Participants worldwide re-created famous works by Vermeer, Munch and Klimt—using everyday household items

A Young Woman with a Wine Glass and a Musician playing a Tenor Recorder could be a copy of a work by the great Dutch painter

Extensive scientific testing of the Frick’s Mistress and Maid proves that it was not finished by someone else

Mauritshuis museum's detailed technical examination uncovers new findings on the Dutch artist's brushwork, pigments and technique

A V&A employee creates a to-scale exhibition of masterpieces for his gerbils while in lockdown

The world’s greatest unsolved art theft continues to obsess—and stump—investigators

The story behind the revealing of Cupid in one of Vermeer's greatest masterpieces, and Helen Cammock on her Whitechapel show and nomination for this year's Turner Prize

The uncovered figure changes the composition of Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window

Laboratory tests revealed "sensational" discovery that the figure in Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window was overpainted decades after the artist’s death

The 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt this year has prompted a glut of exhibitions devoted to the Dutch artist and his peers

Munich museum has undergone a four-year €12m renovation

A team of international specialists are studying Girl with a Pearl Earring for two weeks straight

A Scotland Yard report shows that the notorious Dutch faker bought lapis lazuli paint for his “Vermeers” in bulk from Winsor & Newton