Editing Johannes Vermeer (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Théophile Thoré by Nadar.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Théophile Thoré-Bürger]]]]
Originally, Vermeer's works were largely overlooked by art historians for two centuries after his death. A select number of connoisseurs in the Netherlands did appreciate his work, yet even so, many of his works were attributed to then better-known artists such as [[Gabriel Metsu|Metsu]] or [[Frans van Mieris the Elder|Mieris]]. The Delft master's modern rediscovery began about 1860, when German museum director [[Gustav Waagen]] saw ''[[The Art of Painting]]'' in the Czernin gallery in Vienna and recognized the work as a Vermeer, though it was attributed to [[Pieter de Hooch]] at that time.{{Sfn|Gaskell|Jonker|National Gallery of Art (U.S.)|1998|pp=19–20}} Research by [[Théophile Thoré-Bürger]] culminated in the publication of his [[catalogue raisonné]] of Vermeer's works in the ''[[Gazette des Beaux-Arts]]'' in 1866.{{Sfn|Gaskell|Jonker|National Gallery of Art (U.S.)|1998|p=42}} Thoré-Bürger's catalogue drew international attention to Vermeer<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Vermeer |first1=J. |first2=F. J. |last2=Duparc |first3=A. K. |last3=Wheelock |author4=Mauritshuis (Hague, Netherlands) |author5=National Gallery of Art |date=1995 |title=Johannes Vermeer |location=Washington |publisher=National Gallery of Art |page=59 |isbn=0-300-06558-2}}</ref> and listed more than 70 works by him, including many that Thoré-Bürger regarded as uncertain.{{Sfn|Gaskell|Jonker|National Gallery of Art (U.S.)|1998|p=42}}

Upon the rediscovery of Vermeer's work, several prominent Dutch artists modelled their style on his work, including [[Simon Duiker]]. Other artists who were inspired by Vermeer include Danish painter [[Wilhelm Hammershoi]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gunnarsson |first=Torsten |date=1998 |title=Nordic Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century |publisher=Yale University Press |page=227 |isbn=0-300-07041-1}}</ref> and American [[Thomas Wilmer Dewing]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artic.edu/aic/resources/resource/473 |title=Interpretive Resource: Artist Biography: Thomas Wilmer Dewing |work=Art Institute Chicago |access-date=10 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402121028/http://www.artic.edu/aic/resources/resource/473 |archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref> In the 20th century, Vermeer's admirers included [[Salvador Dalí]], who painted his own version of ''[[The Lacemaker (Vermeer)|The Lacemaker]]'' (on commission from collector [[Robert Lehman]]) and pitted large copies of the original against a rhinoceros in some surrealist experiments. Dali also celebrated the master in ''[[The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table]]'', 1934.

[[Han van Meegeren]] was a 20th-century Dutch painter who worked in the classical tradition. He became a master forger, motivated by a blend of aesthetic and financial reasons, creating and selling many new "Vermeers" before turning himself in for forgery to avoid being charged with capital treason for collaboration with the Nazis, specifically in selling what had been believed to be original artwork to the Nazis.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/books/review/Julius-t.html?_r=2 |title=The Lying Dutchman |first=Anthony |last=Julius|newspaper=The New York Times |date=22 June 2008 |access-date=19 April 2012}}</ref>

On the evening of 23 September 1971, a 21-year-old hotel waiter, Mario Pierre Roymans, stole Vermeer's ''Love Letter'' from the Fine Arts Palace in Brussels, where it was on loan from the Rijksmuseum for the exhibition ''Rembrandt and his Age''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.essentialvermeer.com/fakes_thefts_school_of_delft_lost_sp/vermeer_theft_01.html#.VrvQ8fk4HIU|title=Vermeer Thefts: The Love Letter|last=Janson|first=Jonathan|website=Essential Vermeer |access-date=10 December 2017}}</ref>

To mark the 26th anniversary of the opening of an exhibition at Washington, DC's [[National Gallery of Art]] featuring Vermeer's work, Google honored Vermeer with a [[Google Doodle]] on 12 November 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Celebrating Johannes Vermeer|url=https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-johannes-vermeer/ |access-date=12 November 2021 |website=Google |language=en}}</ref>

A 2023 exhibition at the [[Rijksmuseum]] in Amsterdam featured 28 of Vermeer's works, the most ever shown together.<ref name="Cumming">{{cite news |last1=Cumming |first1=Laura |title=Vermeer review – one of the most thrilling exhibitions ever conceived |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/12/vermeer-rijksmuseum-amsterdam-review-one-of-the-most-thrilling-exhibitions-ever-conceived |access-date=14 February 2023 |work=The Observer |date=12 February 2023}}</ref> More than 650,000 people visited the exhibition, making it the museum's most visited exhibition.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nos.nl/artikel/2477739-vermeer-tentoonstelling-rijksmuseum-breekt-bezoekersrecord|title=Vermeer tentoonstelling Rijksmuseum breekt bezoekersrecord|date=4 June 2023| language =nl|work=NOS}}</ref> Coinciding with the exhibition, the documentary film ''Close to Vermeer'' was released the same year. The film followed curators Gregor J. M. Weber and [[Pieter Roelofs]] as they sought loans of Vermeer's artwork from museums around the world.<ref>Sheila O'Malley, [https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/close-to-vermeer-movie-review-2023 Review of "Close to Vermeer"]</ref> Also released in 2023 was another movie about the exhibition at the Rijkmuseum: ''Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition''. (External links to both movies are below.)