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Johannes Vermeer
or Jan Vermeer (baptized October
31, 1632, died December 15, 1675) was a Dutch
painter who specialized in domestic interior
scenes of ordinary bourgeois life. His entire
life was spent in the town of Delft. Vermeer
was a moderately successful provincial painter
in his lifetime. He seems to have never been
particularly wealthy, perhaps due to the fact
that he produced relatively few paintings, leaving
his wife and eleven children in debt at his
death. Virtually forgotten for nearly two hundred
years, in 1866 the art critic Thoré Burger
published an essay attributing 66 pictures to
him (only 34 paintings are firmly attributed
to him today). Since that time Vermeer's reputation
has grown astronomically, and he is now acknowledged
as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch
Golden Age, and is particularly renowned for
his masterly treatment and use of light in his
work.
Vermeer
by John M. Nash Paperback: 128 pages Publisher: Scala Publishers
(July 2002)
Reader review: The reproductions of the paintings are
beautiful, and that is what we buy an art book. The author has
fascinating details to relate and he is lively and impassioned
in style! He writes about Vermeer's "suspended psychological
moment". John Nash divides the paintings into Music, Letters,
etc. He shows the works of master painters of Delft of the time
and how they treat similar subjects
Did the famous Delft artist, Johannes Vermeer, use the camera
obscura to create his remarkably photographic paintings? People
have been asking that question for a century or more. To help
answer it, Philip Steadman has written this great little book.
It is truly an enjoyable investigation of Vermeer's acquaintances,
studio, and style.
Liedtke, the curator of European paintings at New York's Metropolitan
Museum of Art, has produced a book that is broad in scope but
refined in detail. He reviews the artists who resided in Delft
or "South Holland," as Liedtke chooses to refer to
the area between the years 1650 and 1675. Following close on
the heels of the recent "Vermeer and the Delft School"
exhibit at the Met, this book, though conspicuous in both proximity
and theme to the exhibit, is not a catalog of the works therein.
Here Liedtke, who also wrote Vermeer and the Delft School (LJ
6/15/01), which served as catalog, examines how perception and
style interact and concentrates on examining works with a strong
fidelity to visual experience, such as Carel Fabritius's townscape
A View in Delft and Gerard Houckgeest's Nieuwe Kerk
in Delft with the Tomb of William the Silent. He shows the
Delft artists to be conventional men immersed in and affected
by their culture. Though he discusses many obscure artists,
Liedtke peruses the work of Vermeer, Fabritius, and Pieter de
Hooch in detail. Unfortunately, his writing makes for a less
than pleasurable experience. Expecting a great deal of erudition
on the part of the reader, the work, like the art discussed,
is pedantic and scrupulous in detail, but Liedtke's writing
style makes little effort to be vivacious or even interesting.
This is redeemed somewhat by the superb catalog of artwork,
which contains 32 color and 320 black-and-white images, including
several fold-out reproductions. The quality of the copies, especially
the color plates, is high. Libraries will better serve themselves
in acquiring Liedtke's excellent catalog of the exhibit, mentioned
above, which has 225 color plates and presents an interesting
analysis as well, giving a history of the Delft city while debunking
myths about the city as unsophisticated. The work in hand is
recommended only for large art history collections and academic
libraries. —Adam Mazel, "Library Journal"
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
More than three centuries after he created them, the exquisite,
enigmatic paintings of Johannes Vermeer continue to intrigue.
In this volume, scholars, conservators, and scientists investigate
Vermeer`s art and the milieu in which he worked. They offer
insight into the current state of understanding of the Dutch
master`s art and focus special attention on the unique qualities
of his paintings.
Following the blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery
of Art in Washington, D.C., this book presents the complete
works of the great Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675).
Oversize, full-page color plates of each of Vermeer's 35 known
masterpieces capture the luminosity and the remarkable originality
of the paintings and make this the next best thing to actually
having attended the sold-out show. 68 illustrations, including
44 in full color.
Johannes
Vermeer by Arthur K., Jr. Wheelock (Editor) – Hardcover
(November 1995) Yale Univ Press
In this strikingly beautiful book, leading Vermeer scholars
examine the life and works of this seventeenth-century Dutch
master, analyzing his evolution from a painter of religious
and mythological images to an artist who explored the psychological
nuances of human endeavor.
With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter
Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century
art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from
a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings
of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture,
have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the
anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular
fascination for centuries—and it is this magnetic painting
that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of
the same title.
Virtually unknown until the 19th century, Jan Vermeer is now
considered one of the great Dutch artists, celebrated for his
radiant, naturalistic light. Marvel at this 17th century painter's
small but brilliant output and his masterful portrayal of domestic
life and the interior.
Jan
Vermeer by Arthur K. Wheelock – Hardcover, 160
pages (October 1998) Abradale Press
This book is not an easy read, but it does provide wonderful
insights into how Vermeer achieved the effects he did. It certainly
heightened my appreciation of his work, both in technical and
in artistic terms.
A
Study of Vermeer by Edward A. Snow – Paperback
revised & enlarged edition (April 1994) University of California
Press
"An exemplary book about seeing: about what the mind can
do with great art. Like the sublime paintings which are its
subject, A Study of Vermeer is full of sensual and spiritual
pleasures." (Susan Sontag)
The exquisite paintings of Jan Vermeer, with their luminous
colors and gradations of reflected light, are admired by art
lovers everywhere. This lovely book examines the creative process
and technical means by which the great seventeenth-century Dutch
painter achieved his remarkable pictorial effects.
Vermeer and Rembrandt are the twin pillars of the Golden Age of
Dutch painting, yet Vermeer's works were neglected during his lifetime.
This, the first program to profile Jan Vermeer, investigates the
life and art of this elusive figure.
The
Dutch Masters: Vermeer (2000) Actors:
Champagne, Charisma, Marc De Bruin, Tanya deVries,
Rebecca Steele
Directors: Eric Edwards
Format:
Color, Dolby, NTSC
DVD Release Date: June 27, 2006
Run Time: 50 minutes
NOTE: Also available in a six-disc
boxed set featuring Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van
Dyck, Rubens, Bosch, Bruegel
The Dutch Masters: Vermeer (2000) Actors: Champagne,
Charisma, Marc De Bruin, Tanya deVries, Rebecca Steele
Directors: Eric Edwards
Format:
Color, Dolby, NTSC
VHS Release Date: April 28, 2000
Run Time: 50 minutes
NOTE: Also available in a six-tape
boxed set featuring Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van
Dyck, Rubens, Bosch, Bruegel
Born in 1632, only three dozen canvases survive from Vermeer’s
working life. A resident of the Dutch city of Delft, it is Vermeer’s
subject matter that is the first point of interest in his work.
Unusually, he chose to depict scenes of ordinary, everyday life.
His images are calm and precise, almost mathematical in their
organization, while his ability to depict the effects of light
are also remarkable, though for a long time his skills were
almost completely unknown. It would be two hundred years after
Vermeer’s death before his status as a Dutch Master began
to be fully recognized.
Vermeer
and Painting in Delft by Axel Ruger Paperback: 72 pages
Publisher: National Gallery London (September 1, 2001)
During the first seventy years of the seventeenth century the
Dutch town of Delft emerged as one of the most important artistic
centers in the Netherlands. Although famous as the birthplace
of the painter Johannes Vermeer, Delft was also home to an extended
community of masters that included among many others Pieter
de Hooch and Carel Fabritius. In this accessible introduction
to the key Delft artists, Axel Rüger places Vermeer's masterpieces
within their historical and artistic context. This book, accompanying
a major loan exhibition at the National Gallery, London, reveals
how artistic and cultural developments of the early seventeenth
century paved the way for the flowering of art in the city,
culminating in the master works of the 1650s and 1660s. Investigating
the artistic production of the city genre by genre, the author
builds a picture of the so-called Delft School and its influences.
Although painting from this time is probably best known for
Vermeer's serene scenes of everyday life, his contemporaries
chose many different subjects. The church interiors of Gerard
Houckgeest and Emanuel de Witte, the atmospheric landscapes
and townscapes of Paulus Potter and Daniel Vosmaer, and the
elegant portraits of Michiel van Miereveld all represent significant
aspects of Delft's rich heritage, and all are reproduced here.
The artists' shared interest in the close observation of reality,
and their preoccupation with light and atmospheric effects,
link together the works they produced. From Vermeer's world-famous
masterpieces to the less familiar works of the period, all these
refined paintings reflect a powerful sensibility to the visual
aspects of the world as their makers perceived it.
Jan Vermeer (1632 –1675) is widely acknowledged as one
of the most important painters of the 17th century. His paintings
of genre scenes and landscapes are famous throughout the world
for their exquisite use of light. Vermeer ’s World gives
a fascinating insight into the life and works of the Dutch artist.
With its reproductions of the 35 paintings known to be authentic,
the book also functions as a catalogue of the artist ’s
work.
This book begins with a single premise: that
Vermeer painted images not only of extraordinary
beauty, but of extraordinary strangeness. To
understand that strangeness, Bryan Jay Wolf
turns to the history of early modernism and
to ways of seeing that first developed in the
seventeenth century. In a series of provocative
readings, Wolf presents Vermeer in bracing new
ways, arguing for the painter's immersion in—rather
than withdrawal from—the intellectual concerns
of his day.
The result is a Vermeer we have not seen before:
a painter whose serene spaces and calm subjects
incorporate within themselves, however obliquely,
the world's troubles. Vermeer abandons what
his predecessors had labored so carefully to
achieve: legible spaces, a world of moral clarity
defined by the pressure of a hand against a
table, or the scatter of light across a bare
wall. Instead Vermeer complicated Dutch domestic
art and invented what has puzzled and captivated
his admirers ever since: the odd daubs of white
pigment, scattered across the plane of the canvas;
patches of blurred surface, contradicting the
painting's illusionism without explanation;
and the querulous silence that endows his women
with secrets they dare not reveal.
This beautifully illustrated book situates Vermeer
in relation to his predecessors and contemporaries,
and it demonstrates how powerfully he wrestled
with questions of gender, class, and representation.
By rethinking Vermeer's achievement in relation
to the early modern world that gave him birth,
Wolf takes northern Renaissance and early modern
studies in new directions.
Vermeer and the Delft School
by Walter Liedtke, Michiel C. Plomp, Axel Ruger
– Hardcover, 550 pages (March 1, 2001)
Yale Univ Press
This rich and rewarding volume accompanies a
wide-ranging exhibition, which opened to deserved
acclaim at New York's Metropolitan Museum and
is currently on view at the National Gallery
in London. Vermeer's popularity has continued
to soar in recent years, and this well-deserved
recognition is validated in this catalog, which
brings 16 of his existing canvases together
with contextual information that explains the
paintings as more than works of an isolated
genius.
A
Vermeer: A View of Delft by Anthony
Bailey Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Henry
Holt and Co. (April 16, 2001)
Fluent essayist and New Yorker contributor Bailey
(Standing in the Sun, LJ 1/99) gives a personalized
overview of Johannes Vermeer, reading from the
paintings to the man, and vice versa. Much of
Bailey's factual underpinnings comes from the
work of John Montias (Vermeer and His Milieu,
1989. o.p., and Artists and Artisans of Delft,
1982. o.p.), but he has a penetrating eye himself,
and Vermeer, of whom so much is unknown, is
a topic of perpetual interest. Organized around
individual paintings, Bailey's essay begins
with the great gunpowder explosion of 1654 and
ends with the reverberations of Vermeer's art
in the writings of Marcel Proust and the forgeries
of Hans Van Meegeren. A meditative personal
chapter follows, addressing Vermeer's seeming
ability to stop time in his paintings. Bailey
effectively retells much that is known about
many of Vermeer's contemporaries, such as the
scientist Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, and speculates
on his apparent Catholic faith in the Protestant
Netherlands. Highly recommended for general
collections and also for art history collections
for its broad view and effective style. (Plates
not seen.) — Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst.
of Chicago Libs.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
This little book is amazing! The author discusses each of Vermeer's
known 35 paintings, bringing intelligence and insight to the artist
and his works. Though not much is known about Vermeer's life, we
learn a fair amount about his techniques and the influences from
which he drew. I found it extremely impressive and useful that when
the author mentioned another artist or a painting that Vermeer knew,
these were also pictured, so that I really learned a great deal
about this fascinating artist's time as well.
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Girl
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A
Study of Vermeer
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& the Art of Painting
Portrait of an Artist: Vermeer – Love, Light and Silence
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Color, NTSC
Vermeer
of Delft: Complete Edition of the Paintings
by Albert Blankert – Unknown Binding: 176 pages Publisher:
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The
Dutch Masters: Vermeer
Color, Dolby, NTSC
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and Painting in Delft
Vermeer's
World: An Artist and His Town
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and the Invention of Seeing
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A
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