Essential Vermeer Polls

Vermeer's Painting

• Vermeer's paintings in scale
• Vermeer paintings in their frames
• geographical distribution of Vermeer's paintings
• Vermeer's painting according to popularity
• high-resolution images of Vermeer's paintings
• carousel slide viewer of Vermeer's paintings
• Vermeer's clients and patrons
• the Dissius auction
• the formation of the Dissius collection
• eyewitness accounts of Vermeer's paintings
• missing Vermeers
• Vermeer's subject matter
• Vermeer's lost self-portrait
• Vermeer's painting in context
• rediscovery: Thoré
• Saint Praxedis: Vermeer or not?
• why did Vermeer paint so few works?

Vermeer's Painting Technique

• Vermeer's painting technique
• Vermeer's palette
• details of Vermeer's painting technique
• Vermeer and the camera obscura
• 10 of Vermeer's rooms: axonometric, plan and side geometrical drawings
• virtual reconstruction of Woman with a Water Pitcher
• books on Vermeer's technique

Dutch & Delft Painting

• School of Delft
• Guild of Saint Luke, Delft
• economics of Dutch painting
• timeline of Dutch painters
• timeline of European artists
• Golden Age of Dutch art
• 400 Dutch 17th-c. paintings
• 8 Dutch masters in depth

About this Website

• about this site
• citations
• how to contribute

Vermeer's Life & Family

• timeline of Vermeer's life
• Vermeer's life
• chronology of Vermeer's life
• 10 Vermeer-related documents
• Vermeer the man
• Catharina & Johannes
• Vermeer's marriage in Schipluiden
• Catholicism, Delft & Vermeer
• Vermeer's children
• Vermeer's women
• images of all the women in Vermeer's painting
• Vermeer's family tree
• Vermeer's name
• inventory of movable goods in Vermeer's home

Delft & Vermeer's Neighborhood

• Vermeer places in today's Delft
• Delft in Vermeer's time
• photographic impressions of Delft
• Vermeer's neighborhood

Dutch Music in Vermeer's time

• music in the time of Vermeer, with sound files
• the carillon: Vermeer's musical companion
• folk music in the time of Vermeer

Bibliographies

• Vermeer
• Dutch art by subject
• exh. catalogues of Dutch art
• Dutch culture & history
• old master painting technique
• Vermeer's painting technique

External Resources

• external research sources

Exclusive E.V. Interviews

• 15 interviews with Vermeer notables

Art Glossary

• glossary / a–c / d–i/ j–p / q–z

Dutch Pronunciation

• art terms and name pronounced in Dutch
• Dutch pronunciation of 55 masters of the Golden age of Dutch painting
• Arnold Bon's 1667 elegy in which Vermeer's name is mentioned

Misc.

• Proust & Vermeer: "petit pan de mur jaune"
• Han van Meegeren: master forger

Novels, Poems & Films

• Brush with Fate: a behind-the-scenes view of how Girl in Hyacinth Blue was painted
• recent novels, poems and films inspired by Vermeer's painting

Vermeer Research

• Vermeer exhibitions in chronological order
• Vermeer exhibitions by painting
• provenances of Vermeer's paintings
• dating Vermeer's paintings
• Vermeer's signatures
• geographical distribution of Vermeer's paintings
• research Vermeer's art by topic
• Vermeer: erroneous attributions and forgeries
• Vermeer thefts
• getting started with selected books and videos
• online Dutch art cultural resources

Selected Art Bookshops

• Vermeer
• Dutch 17th-c. art
• Rembrandt
• painting technique of Vermeer and the great masters
• Vermeer inspired videos, cinema, novels and poetry

Vermeer Events & Newsletters

• current Vermeer events
• past Vermeer events
• past Essential Vermeer newsletters
• subscribe to Vermeer newsletter

Posters & Prints

• Vermeer prints & posters
• Rembrandt prints & posters

Timelines

• timeline of Vermeer's life & history, science and culture
• interactive map & time line of 17th-c. Dutch painting
• European painters in Vermeer's time
• painters of Europe: 1200–1900

Museums

• websites of museums with Vermeer paintings
• museums with Dutch 17th-c. painting collections
• list of major Dutch art museums

Maps

• historical maps of Delft
• locate Dutch painters on an interactive map of the Netherlands, with timeline included
• map of 17th-c. Netherlands with pronunciation of the names of Dutch artists and art centers

Reviews of Vermeer Videos

• Tim's Vermeer
• Views on Vermeer: 12 Short Stories
• Vermeer: Master of Light
• Love, Light and Silence
• Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure

Dutch Culture

• lace and lacemaking in the 17th c.
• Antonie Leeuwenhoek
• birth of the United Provinces
• Constantijn Huygens