5 Books Based on Johannes Vermeer
List of 5 books based on Johannes Vermeer. Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Check out the booklist.
1. Girl with a Pearl Earring
History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius . . . even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.
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2. Girl in Hyacinth Blue
A professor invites a colleague from the art department to his home to see a painting that he has kept secret for decades. The professor swears it is a Vermeer—why has he hidden this important work for so long? The reasons unfold in a series of stories that trace ownership of the painting back to World War II and Amsterdam, and still further back to the moment of the work’s inspiration.
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3. Chasing Vermeer
A stolen painting. A series of unexpected events. Two smart children. Petra and Calder live in a neighbourhood where strange things have started to happen. Seemingly unrelated events connect, a sharp old woman seeks their company – and a priceless Vermeer painting disappears.
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4. The Golden Tulip
In a novel set in seventeenth-century Holland, gifted young painter Francesca Visser discovers dangerous obstacles in her search for romance
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5. A Study of Vermeer Rev
Edward Snow’s “A Study of Vermeer”, first published in 1979 and here presented in an expanded and elaborately revised version, starts from a single premise: that we respond so intensely to Vermeer because his paintings reach so deeply into our lives. Our desire for images, the distances that separate us, the validations we seek from the still world, the traces of ghostliness in our own human presence – these, the book proposes, are Vermeer’s themes, which he pursues with a realism always in touch with the uncanny.
