ESSENTIAL VERMEER 3.0 | all things Vermeer
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- Launched: June, 2001
- Essential Vermeer 2.0: June 10, 2014
- Essential Vermeer 3.0: September 29, 2019
- Essential Vermeer 4.0: January 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
- "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 S
- "A new theory on the origin of two paintings by Vermee" - 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 & 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
- Geographical distribution of Vermeer's paintings
- Map of 17th-c. Netherlands with pronunciation guide to the names of major Dutch artists and centers of art production