Vermeer
Americannoun
noun
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In 1990, two men disguised as police officers spent 81 minutes crisscrossing Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to cut out and carry off masterpieces by Vermeer and Rembrandt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
But he was also a mop, or a Vermeer, or a green onion, depending on whom you asked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
"Girl with a Pearl Earring" will go on show in Osaka this week, on a rare trip abroad for the 17th-century Johannes Vermeer masterpiece and potentially its last to Japan.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Mr. Graham-Dixon posits that Baruch Spinoza, a “philosophical pantheist” and a friend of many Collegiants, was an influence on Vermeer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The possibility of his death being connected to a discovery about Vermeer changed everything.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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