It was a chilly morning as I found myself standing at Oude Langendijk 25 in the Dutch city of Delft, the hometown of Johannes Vermeer and his wife Catharina Bolnes. Here, the famed artist created the ...

Now, more than half of the Vermeers in existence – many freshly cleaned and sparkling and some never before seen in the United States – are on view in New York City. “Vermeer and the Delft School,” a ...

NEW YORK -- Johannes Vermeer, the Dutch painter famous for his quiet domestic scenes, careful composition and exquisite sense of light and shadow, produced only 34 paintings in his lifetime. Each sold ...