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10 unusual facts about Johannes Vermeer


A Question of Attribution

They briefly discuss the Dutch Vermeer forger Han van Meegeren, and how his paintings now look like fakes, but were accepted as genuine in the (early) 1940s, and touch on the nature of fakes and secrets.

Brush with Fate

It followed the life of an imaginary painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer as it passes through the hands of various people.

Europeana

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, the works of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton and the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are some of the highlights on Europeana.

Gods and Pawns

Standing in his Light — Facilitator Van Drouten introduces Johannes Vermeer to the camera obscura and has him run off six dozen canvasses for the Company to sell centuries later.

Lyn Ott

He admitted being impressed and influenced by eminent artists from many eras and schools of painting including Rembrandt, Jan Vermeer, Willem de Kooning, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Salvador Dalí, and Claude Monet.

NewTek

In addition to his efforts at NewTek, a personal interest in the artwork and skill of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer led to an investigation of the artists' technique, and a feature film documentary entitled Tim's Vermeer.

Roland Stevenson

Also a descendant of Johannes Vermeer, whose his last name "Vermehren" came from.

Romare Bearden

He also spent a lot of time studying famous European paintings he admired, particularly the work of the Dutch artists Johannes Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch, and Rembrandt.

William McGregor Paxton

Like many of his Boston colleagues, Paxton found inspiration in the work of the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.

Young Woman Seated at a Virginal

List of paintings by Johannes Vermeer, including paintings of other women with virginals and other musical instruments


Blue Balliett

Illustrated by Brett Helquist, it concerns the fictitious theft of a painting by 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer.

George Weissbort

After initial experiments in the styles of Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, Weissbort re-focused his energies towards the study of the "Old Masters", developing an enduring interest in the work of such artists as Johannes Vermeer, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Diego Velázquez, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Andrea Mantegna and Titian.

Stian Heimlund Skjæveland

After finishing formal education he independently studied the old masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Diego Velázquez, Goya and J.M.W. Turner.