Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)

Dutch painter by the name of Johannes Vermeer de Delft (Jan Van der Meer), one of the most illustrious of the period of Baroque Art. He was born and died at Delft (1632-1675). He is famous for his brightly lit scenes of interior,

Vermeer painted "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" (now hosted at the Mauritshuis in The Hague), "View of Delft" and The Letter series, depicting young women writing or reading letters. Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid, etc.

Johannes Vermeer "The Art of Painting" (1665-1667) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna	Vermeer "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" (1665) Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague	Johannes Vermeer "The Milkmaid" (1658-1660) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam	Johannes Vermeer "A Lady Drinking and a Gentleman" (1658) Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Johannes Vermeer "Woman Weighing Pearls" (1662-1663) National Gallery of Art, Washington	Johannes Vermeer "A Lady and Two Gentlemen" (1659) Herzog Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig	Johannes Vermeer "Young Woman with a Water Jug" (1660-1662) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	Johannes Vermeer "The Geographer" (1668) Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
Johannes Vermeer "Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid" (1670) National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin	Johannes Vermeer "Woman in Blue Reading a Letter" (1663-1664) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam	Johannes Vermeer "A Lady Writing a Letter" (1665-1666) National Gallery of Art, Washington	Johannes Vermeer "Lady Seated at a Virginal" (1673) National Gallery, London
Johannes Vermeer "Girl with a Red Hat" (1668) National Gallery of Art, Washington	Johannes Vermeer "Young Woman Seated at the Virginals" (1670) Private collection	Johannes Vermeer "A Woman Asleep at Table" (1657) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	Johannes Vermeer "The Concert" (1665-1666) Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Johannes Vermeer "Woman with a Pearl Necklace" (1662-1664) Staatliche Museen, Berlin	Johannes Vermeer "Girl Interrupted at Her Music" (1660-1661) Frick Collection, New York	Johannes Vermeer "Portrait of a Young Woman" (1666-1667) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	Johannes Vermeer "Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window" (1657) Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
Johannes Vermeer "View of Delft" (1660-1661) Mauritshuis, The Hague	Johannes Vermeer "Lady with Her Maidservant Holding a Letter" (1667) Frick Collection, New York	Johannes Vermeer "The Procuress" (1656) Gem‰ldegalerie, Dresden	Johannes Vermeer "The Lacemaker" (1669-1670) The Louvre, Paris
Johannes Vermeer "The Love Letter" (1667-1668) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam	Johannes Vermeer "Diana and her Companions" (1655-1656) Mauritshuis, The Hague	Johannes Vermeer "The Astronomer" (1668) The Louvre, Paris	Johannes Vermeer "Lady Standing at a Virginal" (1670) National Gallery, London
Johannes Vermeer "The Guitar Player" (1672) Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, London	Johannes Vermeer "Christ in the House of Martha and Mary" (1654-1655) National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh	Johannes Vermeer "The Allegory of the Faith" (1671-1674) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	Johannes Vermeer "The Little Street" (1657-1658) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Johannes Vermeer "Woman with a Lute near a Window" (1663) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	Johannes Vermeer "A Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman" (1662-1665) Buckingham Palace, London	Johannes Vermeer "The Officer and the Laughing Girl" (1657-1659) The Frick Collection, New York	Johannes Vermeer "Young Girl with a Flute" (1666-1667) National Gallery of Art, Washington

The Guardian (blog)	David Hockney, Simon Fujiwara and Titian – the week in art The Guardian (blog) - 13 Jan 2012 at 11:25am It was in the curious visual culture of Vermeer's Netherlands that cameras really started to make sense to artists. Anyway, that's to argue with Hockney the art theorist. But now we have a chance to see how his ideas colour his art.
The Guardian	The art of the remake The Guardian - 17 Jan 2012 at 3:00pm Film directors are particular fans of the art remake (as well as the film remake). Derek Jarman restaged baroque paintings in Caravaggio. The cerebral French master of cinema Jean-Luc Godard goes further in his 1982 film Passion, recreating works by ...
Definitely not the cello - In Concert quiz CBC Radio 3 (blog) - 5 Feb 2012 at 3:13am Tafelmusik in Toronto has put together as magical journey to the meeting places of baroque art and music – five European homes where exquisite works by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and Marais were played against a backdrop of paintings by Vermeer, Canaletto, ...