This was also the age of Rubens, Rembrandt, Velázquez, and Vermeer.

They were also featured in Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer, which was published in 2003 and illustrated by Brett Helquist, as well as its sequels, The Wright 3 and The Calder Game.

A notorious case was the signature of Johannes Vermeer on the fake " Supper at Emmaus " made by the art-forger Han van Meegeren.

Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (; 1632 – December 1675 ) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life.

Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime.

Vermeer was lavish in his choice of expensive pigments, including Indian Yellow, lapis lazuli, and Carmine, as shown in this vibrant painting.

This painting was hailed by some of the world ’ s foremost art experts as the finest Vermeer they had ever seen.

In 1907, van Meegeren, compelled by his father's demands, left home to study at the Technische Hogeschool ( Delft Technical College ), as it was called in those days, in Delft, the hometown of Johannes Vermeer.

In addition, he used badger-hair paintbrushes, similar to those Vermeer was known to have used.

The most famous Dutch painter was Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, but other painters such as Johannes Vermeer and Frans Hals are famous all over the world as well.

His knowledge of literature and films was unusually extensive, and in his interviews, he named Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Francis Bacon, George Balanchine, Balthus, Louis Feuillade, Ronald Firbank, Lady Murasaki Shikibu, Robert Musil, Yasujiro Ozu, Anthony Trollope, and Johannes Vermeer as some of his favorite artists.

FrontPage was initially created by the Cambridge, Massachusetts company Vermeer Technologies, Incorporated, evidence of which can be easily spotted in file names and directories prefixed _vti_ in Web sites created using FrontPage.

Personal Web Server was originally created by Vermeer Technologies, the same company which created Microsoft FrontPage, before they were acquired by Microsoft.

Miller adopted a visual and design policy of sets and costumes inspired by great paintings of the era in which the play were written, though the style was dominated by the post-Shakespearean 17th century artists Johannes Vermeer and Rembrandt.

The Vermeer Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1969 at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont and active until 2007.

The Vermeer was associated with Northern Illinois University as " resident artist faculty " since 1970, where they trained some of the most gifted young ensembles performing today, including the Shanghai String Quartet, Enso String Quartet, Avalon String Quartet, Pacifica String Quartet, and Arianna String Quartet.

Miss Gilchrist felt sure one was a painting by Vermeer, yet Cora had no idea how valuable the artwork was, and thus Miss Gilchrist began her desperate plot.

Her dream was to sell the Vermeer to escape her dreary life with the capital to rebuild her beloved teashop, " the essence of gentility ", lost during the war to food shortages.

The theft was referenced in The Simpsons episode " American History X-cellent ," in which one of the stolen works, The Concert by Vermeer, is found in the collection of Mr. Burns.

The hierarchy was mostly accepted by artists, and even genre specialists such as Jan Steen, Karel Dujardin and Vermeer produced a few history paintings, which were better paid when commissions could be obtained, but in general far harder to sell.

All these qualities appear in the work of Delft's most famous painters, Vermeer and de Hooch ; it is likely that Fabritius was a strong influence on them.

The Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer ( 1632 – 1675 ) was one among several who produced paintings including examples of virginals.

In July 2004, a 100 % share in the airport was acquired by OmDV, a consortium of airport investment company Omniport and the construction company Dura Vermeer, making it the first fully privatised airport in the Netherlands.

Housed at his homes in the Netherlands and France, Mannheimer's art ( which included works by Chardin, Fragonard, Watteau, and Rubens, at least one fake Vermeer, gold reliquary busts, tapestries, Meissen porcelain, and Judaica, including a naturalistic circa-1800 Hanukkah lamp known as the " Oak Tree Menorah ") and his collection of 18th-century furniture ( much of it acquired for him by the American decorator Elsie de Wolfe and the Paris decorator Stéphane Boudin ) were seized by the bank.

The Astronomer ( Vermeer ) | The Astronomer by Johannes Vermeer ( c. 1668 )

View of Delft ( Vermeer ) | View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer, 1660 – 1661

The guitar player ( c. 1672 ), by Johannes Vermeer

* Writing to Vermeer ( 1997 – 99 ) ( libretto by Peter Greenaway ) Opera for 2 children's voices, 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, female chorus, orchestra ( 7 winds, 2 horns, 2 trumpets + bass trumpet, 2 harps, 2 electric guitars, cimbalom, 2 pianos, on-stage harpsichord, 2 percussion, minimum 22 strings ), CD ( music by Michel van der Aa )

* Vermeer Pictures ( 2005 ) concert suite for orchestra from Writing to Vermeer ( arrangement by Clark Rundell )

File: Johannes Vermeer ( 1632-1675 )-The Girl With The Pearl Earring ( 1665 ). jpg | Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665.

File: Jan Vermeer van Delft 008. jpg | Woman with a Pearl Necklace, by Jan Vermeer van Delft, 1665.

The Milkmaid ( Vermeer ) | The Milkmaid by Vermeer.

* The Mauritshuis exhibits many paintings by Dutch masters, such as Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn and Paulus Potter.

* Vermeer and the Camera Obscura by Philip Steadman

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer ( c. 1665 ).

The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer ( c. 1658 ).

Thereupon, he decided to prove his talent to the critics by forging paintings of some of the world's most famous artists, including Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch, Gerard ter Borch and Johannes Vermeer.

Korteling had been inspired by Johannes Vermeer and showed the young van Meegeren how Vermeer had manufactured and mixed his colours.

* Vermeer II, workfortheeyetodo ( London July to September 1996 ).

Pricope received his Masters of Music and Performer Certificate from Northern Illinois University ( 1996 and 1997, respectively ) having studied with Marc Johnson of the Vermeer Quartet.

The Chicago Tribune wrote: " When presented as poignantly as the Vermeer presents it, the inner core of the piece is left so exposed that both religious and dramatic power radiate from within.