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1653-1661 / 1662-1667 / 1667-1675

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VERMEER'S LIFE & FAMILY

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Essentialvermeer.com has become the internet's essential tool for exploring every facet of the life and work of the great 17th-c. Dutch painting master. Essential Vermeer is continually deepened by additions of new and significant studies.

author& webmaster:
Jonathan Janson

last update: vov. 21, 2009

Step off the street and into the 17th century and discover Vermeer’s life, work and his native city of Delft at the Vermeer Centre located on the historic site of the former painter's guild of St. Luke.

 

Vermeer Center Delft
Voldersgracht 21
2611 EV DELFT
NETHERLANDS

+31-(0)15-213 85 88

www.vermeerdelft.nl
info@vermeerdelft.nl

site additions & vermeer developments

new Vermeer documentary

VIEWS ON VERMEER: 12 SHORT STORIES
2009, color, HD, 52 min
 
director - Hans Pool
photography - Hans Pool
screenplay - Koos de Wilt

Youtube.com trailer: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTGXd-wT8_A>

<http://www.koosdewiltconcept.nl/index.php/vermeer-vervolg/>

:
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) left us a small oeuvre of only 36 paintings. Internationally, the power of his work is now more profound than ever. Blockbuster exhibitions, the novel and movie Girl with a pearl earring caught a broad audience. Millions are touched by his work. What do we see in Vermeer that makes him so contemporary? The dignity of his painted ladies, the cinematic and photographic character of his images, the psychological impact, the serenity or apparent glimpse in our own everyday life? Influential contemporary artists, photographers and opinion leadersunravel the extraordinary and mysterious impact of this 17th-century master in our day and age. A Film by Hans Pool and Koos de Wilt.

interviews with:

Tom Hunter, Alain de Botton, Walter Liedtke, Otto Naumann, Thomas Kaplan, Chuck Close, Philip Steadman, Peter Webber, Erwin Olaf, Joel Meyerowitz, Lawrence Weschler, Tracy Chevalier, Steve McCurry, Arthur K. Wheelock, Jonathan Janson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Geoffrey Batchen

Multi-media Vermeer Catalogue

The Interactive Vermeer Catalogue
html-based interactive catalogue for all browsers
Jonathan Janson


THE COMPLETE INTERACTIVE VERMEER CATALOGUE offers both enthusiastic new-comers and seasoned art historians the chance to delve into Vermeer's paintings as never before. Through an innovative system of image mapping, theme boxes and the familiar internet browser navigational format, each of the artist's 37 surviving paintings can be effortlessly explored according to the particular interests of the individual navigator.

  • The CIVC is compiled from a vast array of current and out-of-print scholarly publications. Some information, never before published, is derives from private communications with the world’s most authoritative Vermeer experts and museum staff.
  • The CIVC contains the equivalent of over 300 pages of standard book text covering almost every aspect of the artist's work.
  • The CIVC contains a brief biography of the artist and all is paintings in scale.
  • The CIVC contains over 1,200 digital images.

Special exhibit in Vienna of The Art of Painting

Vermeer: The Art of Painting
25 January – 25 April 2010
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Maria Theresien-Platz, Vienna

In this exhibition,, besides extensive technological studies regarding the work’s state of conservation, several central subjects are faced including the complex iconography supported by period documentation. Some of the props in the picture will be on display; a period chandelier, tapestry, wallmap as well as a precise reconstruction of a slashed doublet worn by the painter.

Other questions are investigated as well. Does the painting represent Vermeer’s real studio? What does the painting reveal about Vermeer’s working methods? Which pigments did painter utilized? How was the composition developed? Did the painter make use of optical devices?

Numerous loans from European and American museums and private collections and historical documents from Dutch archives provide a springboard for discovering Vermeer’s masterpiece.

Booklet on Vermeer's Milkmaid

Vermeer: The Milkmaid
by Walter Liedtke
2009

This 36-page catalogue of the MET exhibition Vermeer’s Masterpiece,The Milkmaiddiscusses the painting’s style, meaning, place within Vermeer’s oeuvre, its first owner and later history. The author reveals that a long tradition of amorous milkmaids and kitchen maids in Netherlandish art is continued here with such subtle understatement that the artist’s intentions have been misunderstood for generations. The Metropolitan’s own five paintings by Vermeer and seven other Dutch pictures in the collection are also included in the exhibition and discussed in this generously illustrated publication.

click here to buy at the MET bookshop.

The Love Letter, Johannes Vermeer

VERMEER'S "Love Letter " Travels TO Paris

The Dutch Golden Age: From Rembrandt to Vermeer
October 7, 2009 – February 7, 2010
Pinacothèque de Paris

The Pinacothèque de Paris will host an exhibition will put on an outstanding Dutch works of art, an ensemble of over one hundred and thirty pieces, including about sixty paintings, thirty graphic works, ten etchings as well as ten objects to give an ample representation of carved ivories, tapestries, china, wooden miniatures, silverware, glassworks and furnishings.

Vermeer’s late little Love Letter, will be on display.

Vermeer catalogue, Walter Liedtke

Upcoming Vermeer Catalogue

Vermeer: The Complete Paintings
by Walter Liedtke
October 29, 2008

Since his rediscovery in the later half of the 19th century, Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) has been one of the most admired and influential European painters. His extremely private life, his supposed use of a camera obscura, and the fact that his teacher remains unidentified have, until recently, encouraged a view of the “Sphinx of Delft” as an isolated genius shrouded in an air of mystery. Walter Liedtke’s new monograph reveals Vermeer’s life to be well-documented and places his work in the context of the Delft school and of Delft society as a whole. Vermeer’s many admirers will relish Liedtke’s exploration of subtleties of meaning and refinements of technique and style. Alongside the most historical approach to Vermeer to date, the annotated color catalogue of Vermeer’s complete paintings reveals a master whose rare sensibility may be described but not explained.

Walter Liedtke is Curator of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He has written widely on Dutch painting and the Delft School and is widely recognized as one of the foremost Vermeer experts.


(available at
Lulu.com)

Vermeer-related publication

How to Paint Your Own Vermeer: Recapturing Materials and Methods of a Seventeenth-Century Master
(289 page)
by Jonathan Janson

Which materials and techniques did Johannes Vermeer use to create his masterpieces? Is it still possible to emulate those methods today? Contemporary American painter Jonathan Janson offers straightforward, practical advice on how to reproduce Vermeer's day-to-day working procedures as closely as possible in your own studio. Detailed explanations document each and every step, from the stretching of the canvas to the three-step method used by Vermeer and his contemporaries including indispensable historical and theoretical background regarding the art and craft of Northern seventeenth-century painters.

In the first part, Vermeer's palette, drawing, pigments, brushwork, mediums, glazing, grounds are thoroughly analyzed as they are gradually encountered during the painting process The second part contains insights into crucial stylistic components which, together, make a Vermeer a Vermeer, such as color, composition, camera obscura vision and perspective.

published: june, 2001
last significant update: nov. 21, 2009



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