ESSENTIAL VERMEER 5.0 | all things Vermeer
- Historical Value of the Dutch Guilder: Measuring Vermeer’s Prices in Context
- Essential Vermeer Expanded Pulldown Art Glossary with 700+ carefully curated art-related terms, 30,000+ internal links, and 500+ images
- Essential Vermeer Expanded Pulldown Art Glossary with 700+ carefully curated art-related terms, 30,000+ internal links, and 500+ images
- Before-and-after Slider Images of 9 Paintings by Vermeer following Major Resorations
- "Revisiting Vermeer’s Delft residence—A response to Hans Slager" by Frans Grijzenhout
- Encyclopedic Database of Johannes Vermeer's Artistic, Social, and Personal Interactions
- Philosophy
- Citations
- How to help
- Launched: June, 2001
- Essential Vermeer 2.0: June 10, 2014
- Essential Vermeer 3.0: September 29, 2019
- Essential Vermeer 4.0: January 1, 2024
- Essential Vermeer 5.0: December 1, 2024
Vermeer's Painting
- Interactive Catalogue of Vermeer's Paintings (index)
- Complete Catalogue & Tracker of Vermeer's Paintings
- Sortable Table of Vermeer's Paintings
- Vermeer's Paintings in Scale
- Critical Assessements: What do Vermeer's Paintings Mean?
- Vermeer Paintings in their Frames
- Geographical Distribution of Vermeer's Paintings
- Vermeer's Painting According to Popularity
- Viewing Vermeer High-Resolution Images on the WWW
- Slide Viewer of Vermeer's Paintings
- Artworks Related to All of Vermeer's Paintings
- Vermeer's Clients and Patrons
- The Dissius Auction
- The Dissius Pictures One by One
- Contemporary Eyewitness Accounts of Vermeer's Paintings
- Missing Vermeers
- Vermeer's Subject Matter
- Vermeer's Lost Self-Portrait
- Vermeer's Painting in Context
- Earliest Rediscovery of Johannes Vermeer by Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun
- Biography of Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun
- Thoré-Bürger and the Full Recovery of Vermeer
- Saint Praxedis: Vermeer or Not?
- Vermeer: Erroneous Attributions and Forgeries
- Vermeer Thefts
- Why did Vermeer Paint so Few Works?
- Proust & Vermeer: "petit pan de mur jaune."
- The Han van Meegeren Case
- A New Theory on the Origin of Two Paintings by Vermeer
- Notes on the Early Provenance of Vermeer's The Art of Painting
Vermeer's Materials, Methods, and Techniques
- Vermeer's Painting Techniques
- Vermeer's Palette
- Vermeer's Studio
- Details of Vermeer's Painting Technique
- Vermeer and the Camera Obscura
- Vermeer and the Art of Linear Perspective
- 10 of Vermeer's Rooms: Axonometric, Plan and Side Geometrical Drawings
- A Virtual Reconstruction of Woman with a Water Pitcher
- Books on Vermeer's Painting Technique
Images
Novels, Poems & Videos
Dutch Pronunciation
Bibliographies
Exclusive E.V. Interviews
Contributions
- "Revisiting Vermeer’s Delft residence—A response to Hans Slager" by Frans Grijzenhout
- EV Founder Jonathan Janson Questions Authenticity of Young Woman Seated at the Virginal (Leiden Collection)
- "Vermeer’s House Again and the Jesuit Church" - H.G. Slager
- "Finding Vermeer: Back to the Molenpoort" - Frans Grijzenhout
- "A response to an essay by Gregor Weber on 'Vermeer's Pictorial World'" - Philip Steadman
- "Johannes Vermeer and his Neighbours" - H.G.Slager
- "Johannes Vermeer and Rhoon Castle" - H.G. Slager
- "Earliest rediscovery of Johannes Vermeer by Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun" - Peter Wester
- "Biography of Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun" - Peter Wester
- "Vermeer's The Little Street: A More Credible Detective Story" - Philip Steadman
- "A New Theory on the Origin of Two Paintings by Vermeer" - Huib J. Zuidervaart
- "Notes on the early provenance of Vermeer's The Art of Painting" - Erik de Visser
- "Traditional Music and Dances in the Time of Vermeer" - Adelheid Rech
- "Lace & Lacemaking in the Time of Vermeer" - Adelheid Rech
- "Music in the Time of Vermeer" - Adelheid Rech
- "The Carillon" - Adelheid Rech
- "Missing Vermeers" - Jon Boone
- "Saint Praxedis: Vermeer or not?" - Jon Boone
Vermeer Research
- All Vermeer Exhibitions in Chronological Order (fully sortable)
- Vermeer Exhibitions by Painting
- Sortable Table of Vermeer's Paintings
- Provenances of Vermeer's Paintings
- Dating of Vermeer's Painting
- Vermeer's Signatures
- Geographical Distribution of Vermeer's Paintings
- Research Vermeer's Art by Topic
- Rijksmusem Vermeer Retrospective: The Largest Vermeer Exhibiton ever Held
- Detailed Study of Vermeer's Neighborhood (with ample house-by-house database)
- Notes on the Early Provenance of Vermeer's The Art of Painting
- Online Dutch art Cultural Resources
- Selected Vermeer Websites
- Getting Started with Selected Books and Videos
Vermeer's Life & Family
- Encyclopedic Database of Johannes Vermeer's Artistic, Social, and Personal Interactions
- 5-Part Timeline of Vermeer's Life
- Vermeer's Life
- Chronology of Vermeer's Life
- 10 Vermeer-Related Documents
- Vermeer the Man
- Catharina Bolnes & Johannes Vermeer
- Mechelen: In-Depth Illustrated Study of the Inn where Vermeer Grew Up
- 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 of Vermeer's Home after the Artist's Death
- Vermeer's Neighbors
- Vermeer's House Revisited
Dutch & Delft Painting
Delft & Vermeer's Neighborhood
- Vermeer Places in Delft
- Historical Timeline of Delft
- Interactive Map of Vermeer places in Delft
- Interactive Map of the Gates, Towers, and Windmills of Delft
- Interactive Map of the Geographcial Expansion of Delft
- Interactive Roll-Over Image Map of Vermeer's View of Delft
- Paintings, Engravings, and Drawings of 17th-Century Delft
- Delft Porcelain
- Archive of Period Maps, Drawings, and Photographs of the Environs of Vermeer's View of Delft
- Detailed Study of Vermeer's Neighborhood (with ample house-by-house database)
- Delft in Vermeer's Time
- The Location of Vermeer's Little Street
- Photographic Impressions of Delft
- Vermeer's Neighborhood
- Gallery of 17th-and 18th-Century Paintings, Drawings, and Engravings of Delft
The Netherlands in Vermeer's Time
Timelines
Dutch Culture
Dutch Music in Vermeer's time
Maps
- Interactive Map of the Netherlands c. 1650
- Historical Maps of Delft
- Interactive Map of Vermeer's Delft
- Interactive Map of the Gates, Towers and Windmills of Delft
- Vermeer's Maps
- Interative Map of Vermeer's View of Delft
- Map of 17th-C. Netherlands with Pronunciation Guide to the Names of Major Dutch Artists and Centers of Art Production