The Dutch Baroque artist Johannes Vermeer (1632 - 1675) is best known for his painting, "Girl With A Pearl Earring". Vermeer lived in the city of Delft, and is praised for using light and color to bring striking beauty to interior scenes of domestic, ordinary lives. Not much is known about Vermeer's life. In fact, his works were all but forgotten for nearly one hundred years until 1866 when art critic Thore Burger published an essay that mentioned many of Vermeer's works. Today, Vermeer is regarded as one of the Dutch Golden Age's greatest painters. Much information about Vermeer can be found on the internet. On this page, you will find a variety of resources on Vermeer and his paintings. Some of the following web sites will allow you to download images of his paintings, which can be printed out with the proper printer ink.


National Gallery of Art - in depth study of the works of Vermeer
Vermeer on Wikipedia - various information on the artist and his life
The Complete Works - collection of links to view Vermeer’s known works
Vermeer in Washington - a review by Mark Harden
About Vermeer - information compiled by Tracy Chevalier, writer of the novel, Girl With a Pearl Earring , inspired by the painting
The Novel - information about Tracy Chevalier’s novel
A Chronology of Vermeer’s Life - compiled by 4th year English students at the Universidad de Deusto in Spain
Web Gallery - includes Vermeer’s artwork sorted by dates
Vermeer Masterpieces - compiled by the Museum for Art and History in Amsterdam
Pearl Earring - a student’s reaction to the famous painting
Vermeer at The Met - the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s information on the artist
Multimedia Vermeer - encyclopedic web site with many pages on Vermeer
Girl With a Pearl Earring - an in-depth study of the famous painting by Jonathan Janson
Essential Vermeer - large collection of categorized links and information


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