“I can have Usha take a look at it,” Vance said of his Yale Law School- and Cambridge-educated wife, a seasoned litigator who ...

Read on for all the speculation around who could replace Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman on Strictly Come Dancing. Janette Manrara and Fleur East seem likely replacements, as the pair both host ...

This week, a new biography of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer was welcomed by critics while new titles in historical fiction and folk horror, as well as a “devastating” memoir, also received acclaim.

Here’s a pearl of wisdom. After 360 years, an art historian has allegedly solved one of art history’s most enduring mysteries — the identity of the subject in the “Girl With a Pearl Earring” painting.

When Girl with a Pearl Earring appeared as lot 38 at an Amsterdam auction in 1696, it didn’t have a formal name. It was described in the catalog as a tronie, a Dutch character study with exaggerated ...

This book is going to revolutionize the way we understand Vermeer Peter CareyThe paintings of Johannes Vermeer of Delft are some of the most beautiful even sublime in the history of art Yet like the ...

For 360 years, her pensive stare has captivated all who have fixed their eyes on hers. But as for who the muse in Johannes Vermeer's 1665 work Girl with a Pearl Earring actually was, that has been an ...

A mysterious girl with a pearl earring from Johannes Vermeer's famous painting was likely the daughter of the painter's commissioner, a historian has revealed. The 17th-century Dutch painter Vermeer ...