Johannes Vermeer brightened his native Delft with luminous pictures of women caught in intimate moments, but the serenity of his work, of which he produced remarkably little, is at odds with a life mired in debt, as Carla Passino discovers

The Dream by Henri Rousseau

Andrew Graham-Dixon tells Carla Passino why he thinks we have read Vermeer wrong all along– and who the Girl with a Pearl Earring really is

The gargantuan, bewildering Louvre

Exhibition of the week Turner & Constable: Rivals ...

Kerry James Marshall, ‘poised between narrative and allegory’