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

Last week, dynamo Dede Wilsey dazzled in her Harry Winston diamond earrings while entertaining patrons at the de Young Museum. But as this black-tie dinner up in the museum's Hamon Tower ...

Johannes Vermeer (Delft 1632–1675 Delft) Girl with a Pearl Earring, ca. 1665 Oil on canvas, 17 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (44.5 x 39 cm) Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague Bequest of Arnoldus ...

Besides Girl With Pearl Earring, the research also deployed other masterpieces—referred to as “benchmark paintings”—including Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait (1669) and The Anatomy Lesson ...

Prying eyes are hoping to catch a revealing look at one of art’s most enigmatic subjects. Even today, more than 350 years after Johannes Vermeer painted “Girl with a Pearl Earring,&#822… ...

Scientists have discovered the strange reason why 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' is so captivating, and it could explain the appeal of other great works of art like the Mona Lisa.

"Girl With A Pearl Earring" is an intelligent, visually ravishing adaptation of Tracy Chevalier's novel about the Dutch master Vermeer and the model for one of his most famous paintings. Peter ...

The pearl in Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring at 140-times magnification. Photo by Hirox Europe, Jyfel. When the museum last investigated the painting, ...

"Girl with a Pearl Earring" started as a piece of artwork, and was later brought to life, given a fictional background story in a 1999 book and a 2003 movie. (Mark Sullivan/WireImage for Mikimoto ...

Adapted from Tracy Chevalier's best-selling novel, "Girl With a Pearl Earring" stars Scarlett Johansson, late of "Lost in Translation," as a servant named Griet in 17th-century Delft, ...

“Girl With a Pearl Earring,” which tells the back story of the making of Jan Vermeer’s masterpiece of the same name, is as much a work of painterly art as it is a motion picture. “Girl With a Pearl ...