PreviewBook Club
New Getty publication brings together life-affirming DIY masterpieces made during lockdown
Participants worldwide re-created famous works by Vermeer, Munch and Klimt—using everyday household items
NewsJohannes Vermeer
Unknown masterpiece? Picture 'likely' based on lost Vermeer to be unveiled in Antwerp
A Young Woman with a Wine Glass and a Musician playing a Tenor Recorder could be a copy of a work by the great Dutch painter
NewsConservation & Preservation
The master's hand: a treasured Vermeer gives up its secrets
Extensive testing of the Frick’s Mistress and Maid proves that it was not finished by someone else
NewsConservation
New secrets of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring to be revealed online next week
Mauritshuis museum's detailed technical examination uncovers new findings on the Dutch artist's brushwork, pigments and technique
BlogDiary
From Vermeer to vermin: quarantined curators plan major new mouse-sized museum
NewsMuseums & Heritage
A mystery for the ages: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist
The world’s greatest unsolved art theft continues to obsess—and stump—investigators
NewsDiscoveries
Hidden Cupid resurfaces in one of Vermeer’s best-known works after two and a half centuries
Laboratory tests revealed "sensational" discovery that the figure in Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window was overpainted decades after the artist’s death
FeatureThe Netherlands
Golden Age day trips from Tefaf Maastricht: our pick of must-see shows
The 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt this year has prompted a glut of exhibitions devoted to the Dutch artist and his peers
PreviewExhibitions
Crowd-magnet Vermeer borrowed for Alte Pinakothek’s curtain-raiser
Munich museum has undergone a four-year €12m renovation
NewsConservation & Preservation
Mauritshuis shines a light on its famous Vermeer
A team of international specialists are studying Girl with a Pearl Earring for two weeks straight
ArchiveForgeries
The source of infamous forger Van Meegeren’s secret supplies exposed
Documents reveal Winsor & Newton bulk orders from UK
ArchiveCourtauld Gallery
Courtauld “fake” exposed as a real Dutch period piece
Work attributed to 20th-century master forger Han van Meegeren may be 17th-century painting owned by Vermeer
ArchiveFakes & copies
Studies of the Vermeer forger Van Meegeren and 19th-century literary counterfeits
Confusing, criminal, but very virile
CommentLeaders
Comment | Cupid ‘outing’ in Vermeer painting is the right move
The uncovered figure changes the composition of Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window
Martin Bailey