Most of Johannes Vermeer’s women are indisposed. Female subjects mostly go about doing their everyday tasks in the Dutch Golden Age painter’s mere 36 known canvases—they answer correspondence, play ...

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 ...

One of art history’s most famous marvels, Girl with a Pearl Earring, is jetting off to Japan this summer in what will be its first international trip in over a decade. Vermeer’s defining masterpiece ...

A 17th century portrait discovered in an attic by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt sold for $1.4 million in Maine, breaking a state record. The painting, titled "Portrait of Girl" by Rembrandt ...

Pisano, Ronald G., "The complete catalogue of known and documented work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916); volume 2. Portraits in oil," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, no. OP265. "Akron Art ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface. The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it, ...

Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted a portrait of a sculptor friend, high-tech imaging tools have revealed another portrait hidden beneath it. The concealed image reveals a woman, the ...