Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is known to have created 36 pieces of artwork during his life, including his most famous painting, "Girl with a Pearl Earring." The painting depicts a woman, but it's ...

There are two exceptions to this rule: Portrait of a Young Woman (ca. 1666-67) and what is arguably Vermeer’s best known painting, Girl With a Pearl Earring (1665).

Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring has been on display at the Mauritshuis museum in the Hague since 1902. While many lucky art lovers have examined it in person, most have seen only ...

Vermeer’s model for The Girl with the Pearl Earring is probably sporting a glass teardrop-shaped bauble, not a real pearl. The painting, now the artist’s most popular work, has just gone on ...

A centuries-old mystery surrounds Vermeer's painting, The Girl with a Pearl Earring. A fresh scientific perspective may now ...

The painting wasn’t always called Girl With a Pearl Earring. According to the Art Newspaper , a curator at the Hague’s Mauritshuis museum decided to use the title in the mid ’90s.

FILE- Visitors take pictures of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (approx. 1665) during a preview for the press of the renovated Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands, June 20, 2014.

THE HAGUE — Climate activists targeted Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece “Girl with a Pearl Earring” with glue and liquid Thursday, but one of the world’s most iconic paintings was not ...

In an unprecedented blockbuster exhibit, from Feb. 10, to June 4, 2023, the Rijksmuseum will unite two iconic paintings from Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, The Girl with a Pearl Earring and The ...

Anti-oil environmentalists in the Netherlands tried to glue themselves to Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece "Girl with a Pearl Earring" on Thursday in the latest stunt involving iconic works of art.

The Hague, Netherlands — Climate activists targeted Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece “Girl with a Pearl Earring” at the Mauritshuis Museum in the Netherlands with glue and liquid on Oct. 27 ...

A climate protester glued his head to “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” the famous painting by Johannes Vermeer that was on exhibit at a museum in The Hague on Thursday, the latest in a series of ...