After two years of study, the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague has revealed surprising new findings about Girl With the Pearl Earring, the Dutch Golden Age masterpiece by Johannes Vermeer. Researchers ...

Here’s a pearl of wisdom. After 360 years, an art historian has allegedly solved one of art history’s most enduring mysteries — the identity of the subject in the “Girl With a Pearl Earring” painting.

Most of Johannes Vermeer’s women are indisposed. Female subjects mostly go about doing their everyday tasks in the Dutch Golden Age painter’s mere 36 known canvases—they answer correspondence, play ...

Johannes Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring at the Mauritshuis museum Lex van Lieshout / ANP via Getty Images Something isn’t right about Johannes Vermeer’s iconic Girl With a Pearl Earring. No, it ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — After sending its most famous work to be featured in Amsterdam’s blockbuster 2023 exhibition of nearly every work by Johannes Vermeer, the Mauritshuis museum found itself with ...

Johannes Vermeer, 'Girl with a Pearl Earring,' c. 1665 Mauritshuis, The Hague It is one of the most iconic paintings of all time: a young woman looking over her shoulder, her mouth ever-so-slightly ...

Scientists say the 17th-century painting creates a 'sustained attentional loop' Looking at the artwork activates regions of the brain linked to consciousness Vermeer's masterpiece 'Girl with a Pearl ...