Editing Johannes Vermeer (section)

===Youth and heritage===
Johannes Vermeer was [[Baptism|baptized]] within the [[Calvinism|Reformed Church]] on 31 October 1632.<ref name="Name"/><ref name="Tree"/>{{efn|Vermeer was baptized as Joannis.<ref name="Montias 3"/><ref name="Name"/> Jan was the most popular version of the name among Calvinists. Joannis was a Latinazied form of Jan, which was preferred by Roman Catholics and upper-middle class Protestants.<ref name="Montias 3">{{Harvnb|Montias|2018|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=-f1ZDwAAQBAJ 64–65]}}</ref><ref name="Name"/> However, Vermeer was born into a lower-middle class family.<ref name="essentialvermeer.com"/><ref name="The art History">{{cite web |url=https://www.theartstory.org/artist/vermeer-johannes/life-and-legacy/#biography_header |title=Johannes Vermeer |website=The Art Story |access-date=16 December 2020}}</ref> Still, according to Montias, it is unlikely that his parents were Catholics "at this time [the time of Vermeer's baptism]," seeing that they "baptized him in the established church."<ref name="Montias 3"/> Throughout his life, Vermeer never used the name Jan. Nevertheless, "most Dutch authors, in the century since his rediscovery, have dubbed him Jan, perhaps unconsciously to bring him closer to the mainstream of Calvinist culture."<ref name="Montias 3"/><ref name=Name/>}} His mother, Digna Baltens ({{Circa|1596}}–1670),<ref name="essentialvermeer.com2">{{cite web |url=http://www.essentialvermeer.com/family_tree.html |author-first=Jonathan |author-last=Janson |title=Vermeer's Family Tree |work=Essential Vermeer |access-date=27 November 2020}}</ref>{{efn|His mother was born in Antwerp. When she married Vermeer's father in 1615, she claimed to be twenty years old, but she may have "exaggerated her age by a year or so."<ref name="Montias Princeton">{{Harvnb|Montias|2018|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=-f1ZDwAAQBAJ 17]}}</ref> Digna's parents were married in Antwerp in 1596.}} was from [[Antwerp]].<ref name="essentialvermeer.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.essentialvermeer.com/vermeer's_life.html#parents |author-first=Jonathan |author-last=Janson |title=Vermeer's Life and Art (part one) |work=Essential Vermeer |access-date=27 November 2020}}</ref> Digna's father, Balthasar Geerts, or Gerrits (born in Antwerp in or around 1573), led an enterprising life in metalworking, and was arrested for counterfeiting.{{sfn|Montias|1989|p=17–34}}<ref name="essentialvermeer.com"/> Vermeer's father, named Reijnier Janszoon, was a middle-class worker of silk or caffa (a mixture of silk and cotton or wool).{{Efn|His name was Reijnier or Reynier Janszoon, always written in Dutch as Jansz. or Jansz; this was his [[patronym]]. As there was another Reijnier Jansz at that time in Delft, it seemed necessary to use the pseudonym "Vos", meaning Fox. From 1640 onward, he had changed his alias to Vermeer.}} He was the son of Jan Reyersz and Cornelia (Neeltge) Goris.{{efn|Neeltge remarried three times, the second time shortly after Jan's death, in October 1597.{{Sfn|Montias|1989|p=35–55}}}} As an apprentice in Amsterdam, Reijnier lived on fashionable [[Sint Antoniesbreestraat]], a street with many resident painters at the time. In 1615, Reijnier married Digna.<!--and to facilitate their marriage, he brought a testimonial from Delft.<ref>[http://www.xs4all.nl/~kalden/dart/d-a-vermeer1.htm Vermeer's father Reynier Jansz ({{Circa|1591}} – 1652)] His parents were tailor Jan Reyersz and Cornelia, alias Neeltge Goris</ref>--> The couple moved to Delft and had a daughter named Gertruy who was baptized in 1620.{{efn|In 1647 Geertruy, Vermeer's only sister, married a frame maker. She kept on working at the inn helping her parents, serving drinks and making beds.}} In 1625, Reijnier was involved in a fight with a soldier named Willem van Bylandt who died from his wounds five months later.{{Sfn|Montias|1989|p=83}} Around this time, Reijnier began dealing in paintings. In 1631, he leased an inn, which he called "The Flying Fox". In 1635, he lived on Voldersgracht 25 or 26. In 1641, he bought a larger inn on the market square, named after the Flemish town "[[Mechelen]]". The acquisition of the inn constituted a considerable financial burden.{{Sfn|Huerta|2003|p=42}} When Reijnier died in October 1652, Vermeer took over the operation of the family's art business.