Paintings of Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer created luscious canvases of limited scope: generally women
and men in seventeenth-century rooms, but also occasional outdoor scenes,
allegory and religious themes. The fascination lies with the intricate
combination of light, color, proportion and scale that enhances the moods
and reality of the subjects.
Vermeer (1632-1675) lived all his life in
Delft. Much of his
history is obscure.
Instructions
Each painting has a description and a thumbnail image of the picture:
click on this for a larger version (approx 50k).
Clicking on the word "Large" will return an even larger version (approx 150k).
You may wish to use a second browser window: do something like
"File/New Browser...". Then you can read the text and see the picture
at the same time.
Vermeer on the Net
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Tom van Halteran has made
a really excellent and comprehensive site about all aspects of
the painter. Highly recommended!
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A book review of
Vermeer Studies, edited by Ivan Gaskell
and Michiel Jonker. This long-awaited volume contains a large selection of
the papers that were delivered at a symposia in Washington, D.C., in 1995
and The Hague in 1996 in connection with the Vermeer exhibition held at
the National Gallery of Art and the Mauritshuis respectively.
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Jonathan Janson has made some splendid paintings in the style of Vermeer.
- There is an
excellent and detailed description
of the View of Delft by Kees en Brenda Kaldenbach,
with explanations of the geography,
architecture, and perspective, true and false.
- The True Falsies company in Germany makes a postcard of
a modern parody of Vermeer, called The Girl on
the Phone with a Tape Measure.
- Philip Steadman from the Open University in the UK have produced
an excellent paper on the Camera Obscura, showing from careful
perspective analysis that it was almost certainly used.
- There is a
fine scholarly Vermeer page (in French) written by René Berger and
his colleagues at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Max Ule from New York
has an excellent online collection of
bootleg photographs
of the 1996 exhibition at the Mauritshuis, which he took with a camera
hidden under a cowboy hat. There is also a picture of a
"Girl in the Red
Hat Patisserie", but how can one in conscience eat such a thing?
- There are many paintings by many artists virtually exhibited at the
WebMuseum in France,
including some information about
Vermeer.
- Rob Coers in Delft has a page devoted to
Vermeer's life there.
- Some pages about the master forger of Vermeer, Han van Meegeren,
are available from
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