Jonathan Janson is an American painter and independent art historian who has lived and worked for more than thirty years in Rome, Italy. He specializes in fine-realist interiors in the manner of Vermeer and contemporary urban landscapes. His life-long passion for Vermeer has brought him into daily contact with Dutch art historians and Vermeer specialists through his revolutionary website dedicated to the life, work and technique of Johannes Vermeer. Essential Vermeer now constitutes the most extensively researched website dedicated to a single painter containing hundreds of web pages, thousands of images, a complete interactive catalogue of the Delft Master’s oeuvre as well as scores of audio files of Dutch pronunciation and period music and even a Vermeer newsletter which keeps subscribers thoroughly updated on Vermeer-related exhibitions, publications and multi-media events. He is also the author and webmaster of Girl with a Pearl Earring: An In-depth Study which explores every facet of Vermeer’s masterwork and maintains a site of his own painting as well. He has recently published How to Paint Your Own Vermeer: Recapturing Materials and Methods of a Seventeenth-Century Master.

publications:

How to Paint Your Own Vermeer: Recapturing Materials and methods of a Seventeenth-Century Master.
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websites links:

Essential Vermeer

Girl with a Pearl Earring: An In-depth Study

Jonathan Janson: Oils and Watercolors

contact: jonathanjanson@tiscali.it