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HOW TO PAINT YOUR OWN VERMEER:
Recapturing Materials and Methods of a Seventeenth-Century Master

by Jonathan Janson
2006

An in-depth look into the materials and methods of Johannes Vermeer and the studio practices of 17th-c. Dutch painters

The Frame

Girl with a Pearl Earring with frame.
  • Subject Matter
  • the young girl
  • the turban
  • the pearl
  • the dress
  • the dark background
  • the signature
  • Genesis
  • the painting within Vermeer's oeuvre
  • portrait or "tronie" ?
  • Dating
  • dating the painting: general considerations
  • comparative dates by Vermeer scholars
  • Interpretation
  • scholarly interpretations
  • in the light of the Girl with a Pearl Earring
  • Provenance and Present Location
  • provenance
  • Title and Exhibitions
  • exhibitions
  • present location: the Mauritshuis
  • Forgeries
  • related forgeries
  • Images
  • images and details
  • images "tronies," and comparative works
  • Conservation
  • history of conservation
  • recent restoration
  • the signature
  • Bibliography
  • detailed bibliography
  • VERMEER PRINTS & POSTERS
  • Painting Methods and Materials
  • an overview of painting materials and technique
  • support
  • sizing and grounding
  • drawing
  • underpainting
  • palette
  • working-up
  • glazing
  • pose and composition
  • Camera Obscura
  • the painting and camera obscura vision

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