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.

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.

Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft in January 1996 specifically so that Microsoft could add FrontPage to its product line-up allowing them to gain an advantage in the browser wars, as FrontPage was designed to author for their own browser, Internet Explorer.

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.

The 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer often made lavish use of lapis lazuli, along with Carmine and Indian yellow, in his vibrant paintings.

Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours and sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue and yellow.

Many forgeries still escape detection ; Han van Meegeren, possibly the most famous forger of the 20th century, used historical canvasses for his Vermeer forgeries and created his own pigments to ensure that they were authentic.

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.

Previously the residence of count John Maurice of Nassau, it now has a large art collection, including paintings by Dutch painters such as Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter and Frans Hals and works of the German painter Hans Holbein the Younger.

The Vermeer performed at virtually all the most prestigious festivals, including Tanglewood, Aldeburgh, Norfolk, Aspen, Mostly Mozart, Taos, Bath, South Bank, Lucerne, Stresa, Flanders, Kneisel Hall, Caramoor, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein, Orlando, Daniel, Edinburgh, Great Woods, Spoleto, Ravinia, and the Casals Festival.

The Vermeer Quartet performed well over two hundred works, including nearly all the " standard " string quartets, many lesser-known compositions, a number of contemporary scores, and various other works with guests.

Following their very first live radio broadcast of this work in 1988 over WFMT ( Chicago ), well over a hundred different speakers collaborated with the Vermeer, including some of the most renowned religious figures of our time.

However, the other European collections include examples of the work of many of the great masters of western painting, including an important version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier Van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others.

The stolen artworks include The Concert by Vermeer ( one of only 34 known works by Vermeer in the world ), three works by Rembrandt including The Storm on the Sea of Galilee ( the artist ’ s only known seascape ) and a postage-stamp-sized Self-Portrait, five drawings by Degas, Chez Tortoni by Manet, a landscape painting formerly attributed to Rembrandt, and two objects, an ancient Chinese Ku and a finial in the shape of an eagle from a Napoleonic flag.

Chasing Vermeer has won several awards, including the Edgar and the Agatha.

Sir Alfred Beit bought the house in 1952 where he housed his own family's collection, comprising works by many great artists, including Goya, Vermeer, Peter Paul Rubens and Thomas Gainsborough.

The same year the Gallery was once again given some of the contents of Russborough House when Alfred Beit donated 17 masterpieces, including paintings by Velázquez, Murillo, Steen, Vermeer and Raeburn.

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.

Also nearby is Russborough House, a fine example of Palladian architecture, which houses the Beit art collection, much of which was donated to the state by Sir Alfred Lane Beit, including works by Goya, Vermeer and Rubens.

It houses a collection of masters of Western art, including Cranach, Holbein, Van Dyck, Vermeer, Rubens, and Rembrandt.

The painting at the end is a Rembrandt, not a Vermeer and Timothy's ability to walk is only shown at the end, but in the book it is well known from the start that he is not an invalid.

The influence of Vermeer was especially important, seen in one of De Braekeleer's most characteristic subjects: a single person absorbed in a quiet activity, shown in an interior lit by a window.

Finally he chose to forge a painting by Vermeer as his masterpiece.

In October 1932, the famous art connoisseur and Rembrandt expert Dr. Abraham Bredius published an article about a recently discovered Vermeer which he described as a painting of a Man and Woman at a Spinet.

There is a well-known painting by Johannes Vermeer titled The Geographer, which is often linked to Vermeer's The Astronomer.

The image it shows when it lays open is a reproduction of a painting by Vermeer, whom Dalí greatly admired and often referred to in his own paintings.

The memoir's title is a reference to the Vermeer painting Girl Interrupted at her Music.

Miss Gilchrist covered the Vermeer with her own painting depicting the destroyed pier copied from the postcard, to disguise it amongst others done by Cora.

* There is a famous painting by Johannes Vermeer entitled The Milkmaid ( ca.

Girl with a Pearl Earring is a painting by Johannes Vermeer.

Its sensitive handling of light — in particular, natural light filtered into an otherwise unlit interior space — led 19th century art historians to attribute it to Johannes Vermeer, with whose work the painting does bear strong similarities.

At the time it was not known that the painting was by Vermeer.

After a famous Johannes Vermeer painting is stolen while they are on the way to their art gallery, Calder and Petra work together to try to recover it.

1600s painting Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer

Reminiscent of Dutch painting ( particularly Vermeer and Rembrandt ), they are are similar in style to contemporary works by William Orpen, who became Rothenstein's brother-in-law in 1901, marrying Alice's sister Grace.

It followed the life of an imaginary painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer as it passes through the hands of various people.

The imaginary painting ' Girl in Hyacinth Blue ', the principal object in this film, is painted exactly in Vermeer's painting technique by the American master painter Jonathan Janson, author and webmaster of the world-known website about the life and work of Johannes Vermeer " Essential Vermeer ".