Interesting Links to other Ver sites

The best privately maintained Vermeer sites

Fine Institutional Vermeer sites

Johannes Vermeer's Painting technique The American painter Jonathan Janson - who lives and works in Rome - paints in Vermeer's technique and style and succeeds well in explaining how he does it. He also lists many, many links. http://www.essentialvermeer.com/ This site contains hundreds of useful pages and links.   Philip Steadman maintains a page on his Camera Obscura theory www.vermeerscamera.co.uk (see a discussion on a controversy on this site)   Another private home page shows all known Vermeer paintings in the world.   Vermeer in fiction: Tracy Chevalier wrote Pearl Earring. Brian Howell wrote The Dance of Geometry. Art History books on Vermeer See my list of literature (in the yellow bar) under 'Delft Artists & Patrons' - use the central dropdown box. Or go to google and type: kaldenbach literature   General Art History Sites Chris Witcombe maintain the mother of all art history resource sites. See also Chris Witcombe's index of websites Tip: The web site "Memory of the Netherlands" is a vast digitalisation project of the Royal Dutch Library - now well on its way. I would like to point out some great possibillities. By now all of the Mauritshuis Vermeer paintings - and all other paintings by other artists prior to 1800 - are available in all sizes, including an extra large size for teaching presentation and for research purposes, or just for eye candy. This is a 10 step list how to go about for getting them: click http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl then click the EN for English (this toggle is on the right hand side) if text is in Dutch then click the red bars for Collections then scroll down and go to Mauritshuis (Girl Pearl Earring logo) then click search (on the left hand side menu) in "Who" fill in Vermeer click the top painting Gezicht op Delft = View of Delft go to dropdown menu "select size" for Extra Large click your mouse to save image to your disk the menu now proposes to call this file "resolver.pl" change this manually into viewofdelft.jpg if you wish to store it intelligently for safe keeping. If all of this does not work try the Dutch language version. Delft Art History More Delft fine art and pottery has been put online on www.gemeentemusea-delft.nl For online archival information on the Delft archive please click www.archief.delft.nl which offers one of the world's most advanced digital archival search systems, made available free of cost. Enjoy!

Museums with many fine Vermeers see also http://www.essentialvermeer.com/ Mauritshuis Royal Cabinet of Paintings, The Hague, The Netherlands. See also Memory of the Netherlands. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam The Netherlands shows a number of Vermeers in great detail. All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum are now online at http://token.rijksmuseum.nl/ Please click on Zoeken=Search. Then the query frame opens. For finding any info about any Artist fill in the name in the box Vervaardiger=Artist NEW It is a rare and unique privilege that the Rijksmuseum has linked from the main Rijksmuseum site to this site. Start at www.rijksmuseum.nl and select Collection, after which you choose Digital Collaboration and the Digital Vermeer House. National Gallery of Art Washington, DC lists its Vermeers   Frick Collection, New York http://www.frick.org/ Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York http://www.metmuseum.org/ National Gallery, London http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ Louvre, Paris http://www.louvre.fr/   Staatliche Gemaeldegalerie Dresden   Museums with just one fine Vermeer Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien (Vienna) http://www.khm.at/ Herzog Anton Ulrich Musem, Braunschweig, Germany http://www.museum-braunschweig.de/ Her Majesty the Queen of England, Buckingham Palace, London, or Windsor Castle, Windsor. National Gallery, Dublin, Ireland http://www.nationalgallery.ie/ Staedel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany http://www.staedelmuseum.de/ Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, Londen. National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland http://wwww.natgallscot.ac.uk/ Barbara Piasecka Johnson collection, Princeton, New Jersey. The attribution of this painting is currently being contested.   (the pecking order within the two lists above reflect my personal taste in the form of an itinerary)   A Museum which once owned one Vermeer but was robbed http://www.gardnermuseum.org/   A Museum whose founders did their very best - but they did not quite succeed Führermuseum, Linz was going to have The Art of Painting (read 'The Linz Files' - a wonderful book).

Research copyright art historian Kees Kaldenbach. Email kalden@xs4all.nl Back to the Welcome page: click Welcome. Thanks to industrial engineer and web-wizard ir. Allan Kuiper for his wonderful navigator and 3D movies.

Launched January 23, 2002. Update September 11, 2008.