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One of the first works you’ll encounter is “Woman Holding a Balance,” a characteristic Vermeer where the light streams in from the window to capture a beautiful moment of pause and reflection.

We hope the café offers a way to extend the experience of the Frick Collection beyond the galleries,” says O’Sullivan. “It’s ...

It also bears Vermeer’s signature. What it lacks, however, is his signature lighting finesse: Three of the four figures are largely cast in a dark gloom, while the courtesan is bathed in a harsh ...

Vermeer’s paintings are few in number and ... At the Rijksmuseum, the light levels are low, the walls dark, and every painting has room to breathe. Visitors drop their voice as if in church.

The results have astounded them all. Until now, we’ve known Vermeer as a methodical and sublime artist, a magical painter of light and luminous moments of 17th-century Dutch middle-class life.

But he hides it. But it allows this light to fall so gently on her face. Now the exhibition Vermeer's Secrets offers a different kind of portrait of the artist, below the surface, at the ...

Each displays Vermeer’s uncanny command of optical effects, with a dissolving focus on the fur trim of the jacket and a sheeny light reflected from a pearl earring. A blue tablecloth is rucked ...

The Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer has been called the “undisputed master of light.” And when considering his painting “Allegory of the Catholic Faith,” the reason why is clear. Though Verm ...

Gregor Weber, the head of fine arts at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, has written Johannes Vermeer: Faith, Light and Reflection. He believes the book will “overturn conventional understanding of ...