Dog With a Pearl Earring refers to an edited image of a brown dog with a human ear looking over her shoulder, wearing a pearl ...

Classical art and humor pair up incredibly well. They’re such a powerful combination, and the internet has been in love with ...

As time went on, the “why so serious” meme met the early use of “lolspeak”—a simplified form of internet slang that often ...

"People use 'Renaissance painting' as kind of a shorthand for an image capturing a group of people who are compositionally interesting." The post and the popularity of its retort signaled the meme ...

That’s where the popular ‘Classic Art Memes (Humor)’ Facebook group comes ... you’ll also find Claude Monet, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jacques-Louis David, Frida Kahlo, and Eugène ...

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 ...

That’s one takeaway from “Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry,” an exhibit (October 22 through January 21) at Washington’s National Gallery of Art.

The scans also revealed that Vermeer made compositional changes during the painting process, such as the position of the ear. They also allowed researchers to trace where his pigments originated.

World News // 1 year ago Activists who targeted Vermeer painting sentenced to prison by Dutch court The two climate change activists who targeted the iconic "Girl With A Pearl Earring" painting by ...

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This blockbuster exhibition, which features 28 Vermeer paintings out of the some 37 of his works still known to exist, have been brought together from collections as far away as New York, Tokyo, ...