A popular young painter, it was his misfortune to have lived in Delft in a studio near the site of a powder magazine. This, one disastrous day in 1675, exploded, removing all trace of Jan Vermeer ...

Artist Joe Fig’s Contemplating Vermeer gives visitors a glimpse into ... When he returned to his studio, he says, he spent time “moving the people around and adjusting them and their scale ...

It brings together Vermeer’s The Astronomer from the Louvre and his Geographer from Frankfurt’s Städel Museum, and it juxtaposes several artists’ depictions of common subjects, ranging from ...