The discovery of a hidden Cupid in a Dresden Vermeer is a vivid reminder of quite how important “pictures within pictures” are for appreciating the Delft master’s enigmatic genre scenes. Of Johannes ...

After nearly three centuries behind a layer of paint, a naked Cupid has surfaced in one of the world’s best-loved artworks, drastically altering the background of a quiet interior scene. The plump, ...

The unrestored version of ‘Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (around 1657-59) by Johannes Vermeer. air junk / YouTube Even with the restoration’s detractors aside, there’s no denying that the ...

A hidden Cupid in Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, one of the world’s most famous paintings, is set to resurface on the canvas after two and a half centuries behind a layer of paint.

For around three centuries, the girl reading a letter in the dimly-lit solitude of a Johannes Vermeer painting gave no indication of what the message contained. Facing an open window, her figure ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Just in time for Valentine's Day, the Louvre Museum in France has sent its famous "Cupid and Psyche" painting to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts for a show. It is the first time the ...

The restoration of a 17th-century portrait by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer has uncovered a large portrait of Cupid in its background where once only a bare white wall stood. The painting, Girl ...

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The restoration of an old painting, when properly carried out, can reveal startling new aspects of a familiar work of art, and at the same time, raise many questions. Was it the original artist who ...

"The works of this artist are done in a style peculiar to himself, and generally possess considerable merit: the present adds to his reputation." [P. 300; Gottesman adds in footnote:] "'Time clipping ...