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Conservation on mysterious Vermeer painting reveals it may have been his final work

Discoveries

Renewed Frick Collection balances tradition and transformation

Frick Collection

How to see every painting by Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer

An expert’s guide to Johannes Vermeer: five must-read books (and a website) on the Dutch Old Master

Book Club

Vermeer film proves that people really do want to watch art in cinemas

Films

The Leiden Collection Vermeer

(1670-75), in the collection of the US entrepreneur Thomas Kaplan, is the only painting by Vermeer still in private hands

From the archive | £16.2 million Vermeer led patchy sales 


Art market

From the archive | Can the new Vermeer make £20m?

From the archive | Young woman at a virginal: A Vermeer? 'Oh yes it is! Oh no it’s not!'


Attribution

From the archive | A 36th Vermeer?


Podcasts

Vermeer special: the man, the show and an attribution debate

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The Week in Art

A brush with... Sarah Sze

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Bloomberg Connects

Artist interview

Vermeer's hidden Cupid, the Prado's Dutch-Spanish show, plus Helen Cammock

The state of painting now 

The Year in Review 2023: the biggest stories and the best shows

Exhibitions

The Big Review: Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum ★★★★★

Vermeer vs Pokémon: the double-edged sword of the blockbuster exhibition

Visitor Figures 2023

Frick Collection to reopen in April with Vermeer exhibition in the works

Museums & Heritage

Louvre exhibition debunks 'isolated genius' myth of Vermeer

Walk in Vermeer's footsteps: exhibition in artist's home city reveals 'the man behind the paintings'

The Girl with a Pearl Earring

'Girl with a Pearl Earring' reexamined in 100 billion pixels: discoveries from the Vermeer symposium in Amsterdam

Online storm erupts over AI work in Dutch museum’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ display

Artificial intelligence

Mauritshuis shines a light on its famous Vermeer 

Conservation & Preservation

The ‘pearly triangle’: neurological investigation reveals secret of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring

Research

New secrets of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring to be revealed online next week

Conservation 

Hidden Cupid resurfaces in one of Vermeer’s best-known works after two and a half centuries

Comment | Cupid ‘outing’ in Vermeer painting is the right move

Leaders

The master's hand: a treasured Vermeer gives up its secrets 

Tests reveal secrets of four Vermeer paintings—including their authenticity—in Washington, DC show

Questions of attribution

Vermeer at the National Gallery in Washington, DC declared not the real thing

Rijksmuseum upgrades three Vermeers ahead of blockbuster show—but not everyone agrees

Does the Philadelphia Museum of Art hold an unknown Vermeer?

Vermeer mysteries and puzzles

The hunt for as many as nine elusive Vermeer paintings continues

The Met's Vermeer may contain a hidden self-portrait of the artist at work

Did this mysterious Dutch painter inspire Vermeer?

Vermeer reality TV show brings back to life painter's missing masterpieces

Diary

Revisiting the Gardner heist: no paintings, no arrests, but mobsters galore in new Netflix series

Media & broadcast

Vermeer's artistic influence

Van Gogh was an early admirer of Vermeer: 'celestial blues and yellows.. I can’t paint as beautifully as that'

Vincent van Gogh

Magritte painting thought to be an homage to Vermeer heads to auction in Paris

Bob Dylan on Da Vinci, Van Gogh and the camera obscura

Vermeer and the masters of genre painting

Pieter de Hooch steps out from Vermeer's shadow in new Delft show

Vermeer in his lifetime

Was Vermeer a painter of pleasure or a staunch Jesuit supporter? New book challenges our knowledge of the artist

Revealed: Vermeer's patron was, in fact, a woman—and she bought half the artist’s entire oeuvre 

Art history

Courtauld “fake” exposed as a real Dutch period piece

Courtauld Gallery

Studies of the Vermeer forger Van Meegeren and 19th-century literary counterfeits 

Fakes & copies

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