1 In his prime, Vermeer developed what can only be called a formula, and a dazzling one.

2 The Vermeer acquisition gives Microsoft an important foothold in the web-design software market.

3 In Vermeer, the enterprise recurs.

4 Vermeer worked painstakingly, and apparently alone.

5 It is important what Vermeer does not paint.

6 Montias calculates that Vermeer can have sold only two or three paintings a year.

7 And yet, in Vermeer, things are rarely as they seem.

8 It was a fertile time for art (Rembrandt, Vermeer) and literature (Racine, Moliere, Milton, Pascal) and unfortunately, bad philosophy (Hobbes, Locke).

9 Vermeer is my favorite Western painter. Also, Steve Hanks, the greatest contemporary watercolorist.

10 Once again, Vermeer succeeded in transforming a transitory image into one of eternal truth.

11 These include works by Jan Steen , Vermeer and Frans Hals as well as by Rembrandt and his pupils.

12 We do not know who taught Vermeer, or where he trained.

13 According to some experts, Vermeer created thirty - five pictures in all through his life.

14 Vermeer is quite good. Simple. Vibrant. But his work fell off later.

15 The 17 th - century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer holds an inimitable place among painters.

16 Poor Griet is burdened by more than having to scrub the Vermeer family smalls in this fictional biography of a painting.

17 IN THIS ARTICLE: For 300 years the paintings of Johannes Vermeer have delighted and tantalised.

18 Finally, the collagist has graciously hidden APOD's 10th anniversary Vermeer photomontage to help honor APOD on its 15th anniversary tomorrow.

19 This artful photo befits its smaller subject, the Rijksmuseum, with its monumental collection of 17th-century Dutch masters, including works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Frans Hals.