A complete overview of the life, work and artitic milieu of the 17th-century Dutch Paining Master Johannes Vermeer.
The Essential Vermeer was first launched 11 years ago by artist Jonathan Janson. Since its inception, the Essential Vermeer has grown from a simple one-page list of Vermeer websites and publications to one of the most comprehensive websites dedicated to the artist Johannes Vermeer. To date, the site contains over 5,000 web objects, over 500 individual web pages, thousands of links, more than 3,000 images and roughly 200 audio files.
The Essential Vermeer has become a place where I have done my best to present an organic and objective overview of Vermeer’s art, life and times…Maintaining the highest degree of historical accuracy and objectivity, while continuing to expand the site’s depth and breadth, is fundamental. Since I am a painter by profession, I have limited my personal considerations to the more technical aspects of Vermeer’s paintings: after all, that’s where I really feel at home. –Jonathan Janson
Website Features
Vermeer Catalogue – Includes 34 paintings definitively attributed to Vermeer and 3 works which have not received unanimous by scholars
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Vermeer Gallery Box – Allows for customized viewing of the catalogue
Blog – Essential Vermeer Time
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