Girl
With a Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier
Historical fiction set in Vermeer's household describes the relationship
between the artist and a young servant girl.
Hardcover - 233 pages (December 27, )
E P Dutton; ISBN: 052594527X |
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The
Music Lesson
by Katharine Weber
Fictional work set in Ireland involving the IRA and a Vermeer.
(Paperback)
Girl
in Hyacinth Blue
by Susan Vreeland (Fiction)
Eight vibrant stories that trace the history of a previously unknown
Vermeer painting through its various owners, the Vredenburg family of Rotterdam
who disappeared in the Holocaust.
Paperback - 242 pages (October 3, )
Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN: 014029628X
Vermeer's
Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces
by Philip Steadman
Philip Steadman's remarkable book Vermeer's Camera cracks an artistic
enigma that has haunted art history for centuries. Over the years, artists
and art historians have marveled at the extraordinary visual realism of
the paintings of the 17th-century Dutch painter Jan Vermeer. The painter's
spectacular View of Delft, painted around 1661, and the beautiful domestic
interior The Music Lesson seem almost photographic in their incredible
detail and precise perspective. Since the 19th century, experts have speculated
that Vermeer used a camera obscura, an early precursor of the modern camera.
However, conclusive proof was never discovered, until now. In Vermeer's
Camera, Steadman proves that Vermeer did indeed use a camera obscura to
complete his greatest canvases. Part art-historical study, part scientific
argument, but mainly a fascinating detective story, Vermeer's Camera argues:
Vermeer had a camera obscura with a lens at the painting's viewpoint.
He used this arrangement to project the scene onto the back wall of the
room, which thus served as the camera's screen. He put paper on the wall
and traced, perhaps even painted from the projected image. It is because
Vermeer traced these images that they are the same size as the paintings
themselves.
Steadman painstakingly develops his argument through careful study of
the history of the camera obscura, an exploration of 17th-century optics,
and a detailed study of the light, optics, perspective, and measurement
of a series of Vermeer's paintings. He goes to remarkable lengths to reconstruct
Vermeer's studio and its furnishings, down to the angle of the light from
its windows. The science is complex, but always clearly explained. This
is not an attempt to reveal Vermeer as an artistic "cheat." Steadman convincingly
argues that "Vermeer's obsessions with light, tonal values, shadow, and
colour, for the treatment of which his work is so admired, are very closely
bound up with his study of the special qualities of optical images." Vermeer's
Camera is a wonderful book that shows the ways in which, during the 17th
century, art and science went hand in hand. It offers an enlarged, rather
than reduced, perspective on Vermeer. --Jerry Brotton. Amazon.co.uk
Paperback from Oxford Press
Vermeer
: The Complete Works
by Arthur K., Jr Wheelock, Johannes Vermeer
(Paperback)
Vermeer
and the Delft School
by Walter Liedtke, et al
Book Description: Seventeenth-century Delft has traditionally
been viewed as a quaint town whose artists painted scenes of domestic life.
This important book revises that image, showing that the small but vibrant
Dutch city produced fine examples of all the major arts—including
luxury goods and sophisticated paintings for the court at The Hague and
for patrician collectors in Delft itself.
The book traces the history and culture of Delft from the 1200s through
the lifetime of the city's most renowned painter, Johannes Vermeer. The
authors discuss at length some ninety major paintings (seventeen by Vermeer),
forty drawings, and a choice selection of decorative arts, all of which
are reproduced in full color. Among the paintings are state portraits,
history pictures, still lifes, views of palaces and church interiors, illusionistic
murals, and refined genre pictures by Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch. The
rich works on paper encompass exquisite drawings by Delft artists and sketches
of the town by visiting artists. Included in the decorative arts are tapestries,
bronze statuary, silver, Delftware, and glass. The volume concludes with
an essay that takes the reader on a walk through seventeenth-century Delft.
It is accompanied by maps of the city's neighborhoods that indicate major
monuments and the homes of patrons, art dealers, and painters.
Hardcover: 550 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.80 x
12.30 x 9.82
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; (March 1, )
ISBN: 0300088485
Vermeer
: A View of Delft
by Anthony Bailey
(Hardcover)
In
Quiet Light : Poems on Vermeer's Women
by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
(Hardcover)
A
Study of Vermeer
by Edward A. Snow
(Paperback)
Vermeer
and His Milieu
by John Michael Montias
(Paperback)
The
Cambridge Companion to Vermeer (Cambridge Companions to the History of
Art)
by Wayne E. Franits (Editor)
(Paperback)
From
Rembrandt to Vermeer : 17th-Century Dutch Artists (Groveart)
by Jane Turner (Editor)
(Paperback)
Vermeer
by Lawrence Gowing, et al
(Paperback)
Vermeer
& the Art of Painting
by Arthur K., Jr. Wheelock
(Hardcover)
Vermeer
Studies (Studies in the History of Art, Vol 55)
by Ivan Gaskell (Editor), et al
(Hardcover)
