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Johannes Vermeer

Name:Johannes Vermeer
Name variants:Jan Vermeer van Delft
Gender:male
Born:Delft baptized on
Died:Delft buried on
Father:Reynier Vos (1591 - 1652)
Mother:Digna Balthasars (1595 - 1670)

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Attributes

Category Attribute Value Date startDate end
Religion DenominationRoman Catholic0000-00-00 0000-00-00
Subject of painting Genregenrestukken0000-00-00 0000-00-00
Subject of painting Genreinterieurs0000-00-00 0000-00-00
Subject of painting Stads- en dorpsgezichtenstadsgezichten0000-00-00 0000-00-00

Relations

Relation Modifier Date startDate end
Financial
stands surety for Clement van Sorgen, alias: Van Zorgen
Friendship
heir of Maria de Knuijt
nominates as executor Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

References

External biographical records

Secondary sources

  1. Groenendijk, Pieter, Beknopt biografisch lexicon van Zuid- en Noord-Nederlandse schilders, graveurs, glasschilders, tapijtwevers et cetera van ca. 1350 tot ca. 1720, Leiden: Primavera (2008)
  2. Montias, J.M., 'Vermeer and his Milieu, Conclusion of an Archival Study', Oud Holland 94 (1980), pp. 44-62
  3. Montias, John Michael, 'New Documents on Vermeer and His Family', Oud Holland 91 (1977), pp. 267-287
  4. Thieme, Ulrich & Becker, Felix, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Band 34, Leipzig: Engelmann (1940)
  5. Wheelock jr., Arthur K., 'Gerard Houckgeest en Emanuel de Witte, architectural painting in Delft, around 1650', Simiolus 8 (1975-1976), pp. 167-185
  6. Wheelock Jr., Arthur K., Jan Vermeer, London: Thames and Hudson (1981)
  7. Blankert, Albert, Montias, John Michael & Aillaud, Gilles, Vermeer, Amsterdam :  Meulenhoff/Landshoff (1987)
  8. Wheelock Jr., Arthur K., Vermeer & the art of painting, New Haven [etc.]: Yale University Press (1995)
  9. Franits, Wayne (ed.) The Cambridge companion to Vermeer, Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press (2001)
  10. Chong, Alan, Johannes Vermeer: gezicht op Delft, [Palet], Bloemendaal: Becht
  11. Goldschneider, Ludwig, Johannes Vermeer: the paintings, complete edition, London: Phaidon (1967)
  12. Haak, B., Hollandse schilders in de gouden eeuw, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff-Landshoff (1984)
  13. Briels, Jan, Vlaamse schilders en de dageraad van Hollands Gouden Eeuw, 1585-1630 : met biografieën als bijlage, Antwerpen: Mercatorfonds (1997)
  14. Kroone, Peter, 'Nooyt vond ick ligt so Beminden Vriend. Een bijdrage aan het album amicorum van Clement van Sorgen', Fumus 14 (2016), pp. 21-30. <URL: http://www.focquenbroch.nl/focqdepot/fumus/fumus14.pdf>, 26
  15. Mistler, Jean, Vermeer, Paris: H. Scrépel (1973)
  16. Montias, John Michael, Vermeer and his milieu: a web of social history, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press (1989)
  17. Snow, Edward A., A study of Vermeer, Berkeley & London: University of California Press (1979)
  18. Turner, Jane (ed.) The dictionary of art (34 vols.), London: Macmillan; New York: Grove (1996)
  19. Fink, Daniel A., 'Vermeer's use of the camera obscura - a comparative study', Art Bulletin 53 (1971), pp. 493-505
  20. Goldschneider, L., 'Vermeers Lehrer', Pantheon 22 (1964), pp. 35-38

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