Seth Doane is an award-winning CBS News correspondent based in Rome, Italy since 2016. Doane has covered terrorist attacks and breaking news across Europe, traveled with Pope Francis as part of his ...

Researchers believe "Girl with a Flute" could not have been painted by Vermeer because it lacked his precision and paint application. Praised for being a lone genius, Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is ...

Johannes Vermeer in his own day catered to a local clientele and so when he died, indebted, at age 43, with maybe 45 paintings to his credit, his name faded into obscurity until the late 19th century.

Scientists and historians at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., have deduced that a painting attributed to Johannes Vermeer, one of four in the museum’s collection, wasn’t painted by the ...

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 not ...

New advanced-imaging technology is making it easier to see what lurks below—at least in art-historical terms. In the run-up to the Rijksmuseum’s celebration of the 350th anniversary of Johannes ...

It’s not often that art lovers have the chance to walk through a room full of paintings by the great Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. After all, there are only about 35 of his pieces still in existence, ...

He's considered one of the greatest artists of the Dutch Golden Age, but it took centuries for art historians to rediscover him and his delicate touch. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET ...

Nov. 12 (UPI) --Google is celebrating Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, a Baroque artist, who is considered to be one of the greatest Dutch painters of all time. Google noted that on this day in 1995, ...

Vermeer died twice. The first time was in 1675, after the Dutch art market collapsed. As his widow described, “Having no means of his own, he had lapsed into such decay and decadence […] as if he had ...

Praised for being a lone genius, Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is now believed to have had an associate — possibly an assistant or a student — who painted one of his most iconic works. The discovery ...

A team of curators, conservators and scientists from the National Gallery of Art say Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Flute was actually painted by... Praised for being a lone genius, Dutch artist ...