Annotated Bibliography
Vermeer, Girl in the Red Hat, c.1665/66
Mills, Allan A. “Vermeer and the Camera Obscura: Some practical
considerations.” Leonardo (1998): 213-218.

This is about how Vermeer uses camera obscura in his paintings. He uses it in Girl in the Red Hat to give it an “out-of-focus” look to make it look like he took a picture of the girl. Mills also describes his use in many of his other painting. I plan to use this to describe the type of painting style he used for my painting.

Cibelli, Deborah H. ““Girl with a Pearl Earring”: Painting, Reality, Fiction.” The
Journal of Popular Culture 37, no. 4 (2004): 583-592.

Cibelli describes the painting Girl with a Pearl Earring which was also painted by Vermeer. It describes the realism of the painting and says that Vermeer uses this technique with all of his paintings. I plan to use this as a comparison to Girl with the Red Hat as they are similar paintings.

Ford, Charles. “Vermeer to Eternity.” (1997): 86-88.

In this article, Ford describes Vermeer as a painter. He believes Vermeer’s art to be symbolic. He also mentions that Girl with the Red Hat is a pair with Girl with a Flute which can be of use.

Johannes Vermeer
The Girl with the Red Hat
Oil on panel
9 7/8 inches x 7 1/8 inches
The Girl with the Red Hat is of a young woman. She wears a red, feathery hat on top of her head. On her ears, she wears glass earrings that glisten from the light shining on her. She wears a blue velvet coat that has a sheen from the shining light. She sits in a wooden chair that has been carved into lion shapes that are hard to see. Behind her hangs a tapestry whose subject cannot be told because she sits in front of it.

Vermeer does not have many paintings that are known today, but those that we do know are widely known. The painting in this exhibit known as Young Woman Seated at a Virginal is one painting that is suspected to be one of his very few. With many of his paintings he uses camera obscura which is what he has been thought of as using for this painting.

Rachel Vining