E. V. Bibliography:
The Life, Work and Times of Johannes Vermeer
(217 entries)
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ABELS, Paul, "Church and Religion in the Times of Vermeer," in Dutch Society in the Age of Vermeer, Zwolle, 1996
ALPERS, S., The Art of Describing in the Seventeenth Century, London,1983
AINSWORTH, Maryn Wynn, Art and Autoradiography: Insights into the Genesis of the Paintings of Rembrandt, Van Dyck and Vermeer, New York, 1993
ARASSE, Daniel, Vermeer
ARASSE, Daniel, "Vermeer's Private Allegories," in Vermeer Studies, edited by Ivan Gaskell and Michiel Jonker, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Yale University Press, New Haven, London 1998
BAILEY, Anthony, Vermeer: A View of Delft
BAILEY, Martin, Vermeer (Colour Library), London, 1995
BEGHEYN, Paul Begheyn, "Johannes Vermeer en de jezuïeten te Delft," Oud Holland 121 (2008), p.40-55
BERGER, Harry Jr., "Conspicuous Exclusion in Vermeer: An Essay in Renaissance Pastoral," in Yale French Studies 47, 1973, pp. 243-265
BERGER, Harry Jr., "Some Vanity of His Art: Conspicuous Exclusion and Pastoral in Vermeer," Salmagundi, 44-45, 1979, pp. 89-112
(the two essays above have been republished together in Second World and Green World: Studies in Renaissance Fiction-Making, edited by John P. Lynch, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988, pp. 441-509
BERKEL, Klaas van, "Johannes Vermeer and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek," in exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt, Johannes Vermeer; Der Geograph und Der Astronom nach 200 Jaren wieder vereint, pp. 23-30, Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, 1997
BERKEL, Klaas van, WADUM, Jørgen, ZANDVLIET, K., with contribution from EKKART, Rudi, The Scholarly World of Vermeer, Zwolle, 1996
BERKEL, Klaas van, "Vermeer and the Representation of Science," in The Scholarly World of Vermeer, Zwolle, 1996
BLANKERT, Albert, (with contributions by RUURS, Rob and van de WATERING, Willem), Vermeer, Oxford, 1978
BLANKERT, Albert, and GRIJP, Louis, "An Adjustable Leg and a Book: Vermeer's 'Lacemaker' Compared to Others," in Shop Talk: Studies in Honour of Seymour Slive, 1995
BLANKERT, Albert, "Vermeer's Modern Themes and Their Tradition," in Johannes Vermeer
BLANKERT, Albert, Selected Writings on Dutch Paintings: Rembrandt, Van Beke, Vermeer and Others, Zwolle, 2004
BLANKERT, Albert, "Johannes Vermeers 'Kupplerin' - neu betrachtet," in Johannes Vermeer: Bei Der Kupplerin, exh. cat. Staatliche Kunstssammlungen Dresden, Dresden, 2004
BIANCONI, Piero, The Complete Paintings of Vermeer, New York, 1967
BLUM, André, Vermeer et Thoré-Bürger, Genova, 1946
BLOCK,Vitali, Tutta la pittura de Vermeer di Delft, Milan, 1954
BODE, Wilhelm von, Jan Vermeer und Pieter de Hooch als Konkurrenten, Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen 32 (1911): 1-2, repro.
BODE, Wilhelm von, Die Meister der holländischen und vlämischen Malerschulen, 2nd ed., Leipzig, 1919: 86-89, repro.
BOMFORD, David, "Perspective, Anamorphosis, and Illusion: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Peep Shows," in Vermeer Studies 
BREDIUS, A., "Iets over Joftannes Vermeer," in Oud-Holland, 3, 1885, pp. 217
BREDIUS, A., "Nieuwe bijdragen over Johannes Vermeer," in Oud- Holland, 28, 191O, pp. 61
BREDIUS, A., "Italiaansche schilderijen in 1672 door Haagsche en Delftsche schilders beoordeeld," in Oud-Holland, 34, 1916, pp. 88
BREDIUS, A., "Schilderijen uit de nalatenschap van den Delltschen Vermeer," in Oud-Holland, 34, 1916, pp. 160 sgg.
BRYANT, Julius, Kenwood House: Catalogue of Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest, New Haven/London, 2003
BROOS, Ben, "Vermeer: Malice and Misconception," in Vermeer Studies, edited by Ivan Gaskell and Michiel Jonker, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Yale University Press, New Haven, London 1998, pp. 18- 31
BROOS, Ben, " 'Un celbre Peintre nomé Verme[e]r,' " in Johannes Vermeer,
BUIJSEN, Edwin, The Young Vermeer, The Hague, 2010
BUIJSEN, Edwin, "Music and the Age of Vermeer," in Dutch Society in the Age of Vermeer, Zwolle, 1996
CHAPMAN, H. Perry, "Women in Vermeer’s Home" in Wooncultuur in de Nederlanden 1500-1800/The Art of Home in the Netherlands 1500-1800, edited by Märiet Westermann, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 51, 2001, 237-71.
CHAPMAN, H. Perry, Michael COLE, and Mary PARDO. "The imagined studios of Rembrandt and Vermeer," Inventiones of the studio, Renaissance to Romanticism. Ed. Michael COLE. Chapel Hill, NC: [publisher], 2005. 108-146.
CHAPMAN, Perry H., "Inside Vermeer's Women," in Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence
Van CLEEMPOEL, K., "Representations of astrolabes in western art," in K. Van Cleempoel (ed.), Astrolabes at Greenwich. A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 99-111.
COSTARAS, Nichola, "A Study of the Materials and Techniques of Johannes Vermeer," in Vermeer Studies, edited by Ivan Gaskell and Michiel Jonker, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Yale University Press, New Haven, London 1998
deLSAUTE, Jean-Luc, "The Camera Obscura and Painting in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," in Vermeer Studies, edited by Ivan Gaskell and Michiel Jonker, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Yale University Press, New Haven, London 1998
ELOVSSON, Per-Olov, "The Geographer's Heart: A Study of Vermeer's Scientists," Konsthistorisk Tidskrift 60, 1991
FILIPCZAK, Z.Z. "Vermeer, elusiveness, and visual theory," Simiolus 32 (2006), nr. 4, p. 263, afb. 2
FINK, Daniel A.,"Vermeer's Use of the Camera Obscura: A Comparative Study," The Art Bulletin 53, 1971
FLEISCHER, " Ludolf de Jong's The Refused Glass and its Effect on the Art of Vermeer and De Hooch," in Rembrandt, Rubens and the art of their time: recent perspectives, Roland E. Flseischer and Susan C. Scott, University Park, Penn, The Pennsylvania State University 1997
FRANKFURT, Johannes Vermeer: Der Geograph und der Astronom nach 200 Jahren wieder verient, exh. cat. by Michael Mac-Gerard, with essays by Klass va Berkel, Jørgen Wadum,Peter Waldeis, and Arthur Wheelock Jr., Frankfurt am Main, Stadelsches Kunstisnstitut und Stadtische Galerie, Frankfurt, 1997
FRANITS, Wayne, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution, New Haven/London, 2004
edited by FRANITS, Wayne, The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art), Cambridge, 2001
FRANITS, Wayne, "Johannes Vermeer: An Overview of His Life and Stylistic Evolution," in The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art), edited by Wayne Frantis, Cambridge, 2001
FRANITS, Wayne, "Living in the Lap of Luxury: Vermeer, his Admirers and his Patrons," in, Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence
FRIMMEL, Theodor von, "A Woman Weighing Pearls by Vermeer of Delft," The Burlington Magazine 22 (October 1912): 48-49.
edited by GASKELL, Ivan and JONKER, Micheal, Vermeer Studies
GASKELL, Ivan, "Vermeer and the Limits of Interpretation," in Vermeer Studies. Studies in the History of Art, edited by Ivan Gaskell and Michiel Jonker, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Yale University Press, New Haven, London 1998
GASKELL, Ivan, Vermeer's Wager (Essays in Art and Culture)
GASKELL, Ivan, "Vermeer, Judgment and Truth," The Burlington Magazine 126 (September 1984): 557-561
van GELDER, J.G., "Jan Vermeer's Clio," Oud Holland 66 (1951), p. 44-45
van GELDER, J.G., "Diana door Vermeer en C. de Vos," in Oud Holland, 71, 1956, pp. 245
van GELDER, J.G. con commento di J. A. Emmens, De Schilderkunst van Jan Vermeer, Utrecht, 1958.
GERSON, H., Johannes Vermeer, in Encyclopedia of World Art, New York-Toronto-London, XIV, 1967, col. 739 sgg.
GIFFORD, E. Melanie, "Painting Light: Recent Observations on Vermeer's Technique," in Vermeer Studies. Studies in the History of Art, edited by Ivan Gaskell and Michiel Jonker, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Yale University Press, New Haven, London 1998
GODLEY, John, The Master Forger: The Story of Hans van Meegeren, New York, 1952
GOLDSCHEIDER, L., Jan Vermeer, London, 1958
GOODMAN, Elise, "The Landscape on the Wall in Vermeer," in The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art) edited by Wayne Franits, Cambridge, 2001
GOWING, Lawrence, Vermeer
GRIMME, Ernst Günther, Jan Vermeer van Delft, Cologne, 1974
GREUB, Thierry, J. Vermeer van Delft : junge Dame mit Perlenhalsband : ein Werk aus der Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin-Tiergarten, Kulturforum Matthäikirchplatz, Berlin, 2003
GROEN, Karin M., van der WERF, Inez D., van der BERG, Klaas Jan, BOON, Jaap J., "Scientific Examination of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring," inVermeer Studies edited by Ivan Gaskell and Michiel Jonker, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Yale University Press, New Haven, London 1998
GROEN, Karin, "Painting Technique in the Seventeenth Century in Holland and the Possible Use of the Camera Obscura by Vermeer", in Inside the Camera Obscura – Optics and Art under the Spell of the Projected Image, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, reprint 333, 2007, pp.195-210
de GROOT, Hofstede C., A Catalogue Raisoneé of the works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vols.10, 1907-1928; Vol.1, "Johannes Vermeer"
de GROOT, Hofsrtede, Cornelis, "A Newly Discovered Picture by Vermeer of Delft," The Burlington Magazine 18 (December 1910): pp. 133-134.
HAAG, Sabine, OBERTHALER, Elke Oberthale, PÉNOT, Sabine (eds.), Vermeer. Die
Malkunst. exh. cat. edited by Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna 2010.
HAKS, Donald and SMAN, Marie Christine van der (eds.), Dutch Society in the Age of Vermeer, Zwolle, 1996
HAKS, Donald, in "The Household of Johannes Vermeer," in Dutch Society in the Age of Vermeer, Zwolle, 1996
HALE, P. L., Vermeer, London 1937
HARMON, Roger, "Musica laetitiae comes" and Vermeer's Music Lesson, Oud Holland 113 (1999), pp. 161-166
HAVARD, Henry, Van der Meer de Delft, Paris, 1888: 37, no. 30.
HEDQUIST, Valerie, "The Real Presence of Christ and the Pentinent Mary Magdalen in the "Allegory of Faith" by Johannes Vermeer," Art History 23, 2000
HEDQUIST, Valerie, "Religion in the Art and Life of Vermeer," in The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art)
HEDQUIST, Valerie, "The Real Presence of Christ and the Penitent Mary Magdalen in the Allegory of Faith by Johannes Vermeer," Art History, Volume 23, Number 3, September 2000, pp. 333-364
HERTEL, Christiane, Vermeer: Reception and Interpretation, Cambridge / New York, 1996
HERTEL, Christiane, "Seven Vermeers: Collection, Reception, Response," in The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art)
HEUER, Christopher, Perspective as process in Vermeer, 2000
HUBSCHMITT, William Evan, The art of painting : an iconographic examination of De Schilderconst by Johannis Vermeer of Delft, Dissertation State University of sNew York at Binghampton, 1986
HUERTA, Robert D., Giants of Delft: Johannes Vermeer and the Natural Philosophers : The Parallel Search for Knowledge During the Age of Discovery
HUERTA, Robert D., Vermeer And Plato: Painting The Ideal
HYAAT, Mayor A., "The Photographic Eye," Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, new series vol. 1, 1946
JANSON, Jonathan, Looking Over Vermeer’s Shoulders, 2008
de JONG, Eddy, "On Balance," in Vermeer Studies. Studies in the History of Art, edited by Ivan Gaskell and Michiel Jonker, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Yale University Press, New Haven, London 1998
JOWELL, Frances Suzman, "Vermeer and Thoré-Bürger: Recoveries of Reputation," in Vermeer Studies, edited by Ivan Gaskell and Michiel Jonker, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Yale University Press, New Haven, London 1998, pp.35-57
JOWELL, Frances Suzman, Thoré-Bürger and the art of the past, New York, 1977.
JOWELL, Frances Suzman, "Thoré-Bürger's art collection: 'a rather unusual gallery of bric-à-brac'," in Simiolus: Netherlands quarterly for the history of art, vol.30,2003 no. 1/2, pp.54-55
JOWELL, Frances Suzman, "Thoré-Bürger- A Critical Role in the Art Market," Burlington Magazine 138 (1996), pp. 155-116
JOWELL, Frances Suzman, "Thoré-Bürger and Vermeer: Critical and Commercial Fortunes," in Shop Talk: Studies in Horour of Seymour Slive (Cambridge, Mass., 1995), 125-126 n.11
KAHR, Madlyn Millner, "Vermeer's Girl Asleep, A Moral Emblem," Metropolitan Museum Journal, VI, 1972
KALDENBACH, Kees, 'Ein 3D-Flug über die 'Ansicht von Delft' ; Johannes Vermeers Meisterwerk aus 1660 als virtuelle Welt' (A 3D flight over 'View of Delft', text in German) Weltkunst, Munich, February 1999, vol.69, no. 2, p. 308-310
KALDENBACH, Kees, "Trekschuiten, haringbuizen en vrachtschepen op Vermeers Gezicht op Delft" in Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis, Vol. 19 nr. 1 (April) 2000. In 2001 a reprint has appeared in Historisch Jaarboek voor Delft, the year book of the Historische Vereniging Delfia Batavorum
KALDENBACH, Kees, 'Het Straatje van Johannes Vermeer: Nieuwe Langendijk 24-26? Een kunsthistorische visie op een archeologisch en bouwhistorisch onderzoek' in Bulletin KNOB (Koninklijk Nederlandse Oudheidkundige Bond), Vol. 99 nr. 5-6, november-december 2000 p. 239-249
KALDENBACH, Kees, "Die kleine Strasse von Johannes Vermeer: Nieuwe Langendijk Nr. 22-26? Ein kunstgeschichtlicher Blick auf eine archäologische und baugeschichtliche Untersuchung" in Die Denkmalpflege, 2002
KALDENBACH, Kees, The Genesis of a Wall Chart on the Cultural Heritage of Seventeenth-Century Delft: Johannes Vermeer and the Delft School: a Chart of Homes of Delft Artists and Patrons in the Seventeenth Century. Visual Resources, Vol. XVIII, No. 3, September 2002
(research, map and text by KALDENBACH, Kees, Johannes Vermeer and the Delft school : a full colour chart showing the homes of circa 120 artists and circa 130 patrons who lived in 17th century Delft, Amsterdam, 2001)
KERSTEN, M.C.C. & LOKIN, D. H. A.C., Delft Masters, Vermeer's Contemporaries. Illusionism through the Conquest of Light and Space, exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum het Princenhof, Delft; Zwolle, 1996.
KONINGSBERGER, Hans, The World of Vermeer 1632-1675, New York, 1967
KLOEK, Wouter, et al., Dutch art in the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer : masterworks of the Golden Age from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Tokyo, 2000
KUHN, Hermann, "A Study of the Pigments and Grounds Used by Jans Vermeer," Reports and Studies in the History of Art, 1968, pp. 154-202.
KEYSILITZ, Rudolf, Der 'Clavis interpretandi' in der hollandischen Malerei des 17, Jahrhunderts, Ph.D. diss., Munich,1956
LAURENZE-LANSABERG, Claudia, "Neutron-Autoradiography of two Paintings by Jan Vermeer in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin", in Inside the Camera Obscura – Optics and Art under the Spell of the Projected Image, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, reprint 333, 2007, pp. 211-225
LEVY-VAN HALM, Koos, "Where di Vermeer Buy His Paining Materials? Theory and Practice," in Vermeer Studies, edited by Ivan Gaskell and Michiel Jonker, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Yale University Press, New Haven, London 1998
LIEDTKE, Walter, Vermeer and the Delft School, New York, 2001
LIEDTKE, Walter, Vermeer: The Complete Catalogue, New York, 2008
LIEDTKE, Walter, "Vermeer Teaching Himself," in The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art)
LIEDTKE, Walter, The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer, The Metorpolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009
LOKIN, Danielle H. A. C., "Communicating the Proper Life: Dutch Literary Texts in the Seventeenth Centruy," in Human Connections in the Age of Vermeer, London, 2012
LOPEZ, Jonathan, The Man Who Made Vermeers, New York, 2008
LOPEZ, Jonathan, "Van Meegeren’s Early Vermeers," Apollo (July-August 2008), pp. 22-29
LUCAS, Edward Verrall, Vermeer the Magical, London, 1929
MALRAUX, André, Vermeer de Delft, Paris, 1952
MAARSEVEEN, M. P. van, Vermeer and Delft: His Life and His Times, Stedelijk Museum het Prinshof, Amersfoort, 1996
MENZEL, Gerhard W., Vermeer, Leipzig, 1977
MIEDEMA, Hessel, "Jan Vermeer's Art of Painting," in Vermeer Studies, edited by Ivan Gaskell and Michiel Jonker, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Yale University Press, New Haven, London 1998
MILS, A. A., "Vermeer and the camera obscura: some practical considerations," Leonardo 31, 1998, pp. 213-218
MIRIMONDE, Albert P. de., "Les Sujets musicaux chez Vermeer de Delft," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 57, January 1961
MONTIAS, John Michael, Vermeer and His Milieu: A Web of Social History