Question: What is the name of the age in which Vermeer is typically grouped?
About the article "Johannes Vermeer", section "Abstract".

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The first Vermeer exclusive industrial dealership was established in Findlay, Ohio, in 1960.
I n 1967, having expanded the original factory several times and with 541 employees, the company purchased land east of Pella and moved into its first new factory building on that site.
By the end of the decade, Vermeer quadrupled in size and had dealerships open in Iowa, Wisconsin, California, Kansas, Michigan, Florida, Georgia, New York and Maryland.
Vermeer International was incorporated in Goes, the Netherlands as a subsidiary of Vermeer Manufacturing Co. in 1970.
In 2008, the name was changed to Vermeer EMEA to represent the Vermeer office for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Vermeer opened its first Chinese dealership in Shanghai in 2002.
In 2003, Lely and Vermeer form an alliance that allows Vermeer to market and service Lely hay and forage equipment in the U.S. under the Vermeer brand.
The years 2008 and 2009 brought about more expansion.
Lely and Vermeer signed a joint acquisition agreement to acquire Welger Maschinenfabrik GmbH in Wolfenbuettel, Germany, to increase global presence in grassland machinery and baling equipment.
Vermeer also purchased Wildcat Manufacturing in Freeman, South Dakota, a manufacturer of trommel screens and compost turners.
In addition, the company opened an office in Singapore to provide additional sales, marketing, equipment and parts support to the Asia-Pacific region.
The following year, a new facility in Valinhos, Brazil was opened to serve the needs of the Latin American market.
Meanwhile, at the corporate headquarters in Pella, Vermeer constructed the premiere Global Pavilion training center and museum in the mid 1990s, and introduced a Vermeer Health Services Center in 2002 – providing employees with health services at no cost to them.
And in 2013, Vermeer unveiled plans for a Vermeer Early Learning Center to be constructed near the factory, at the home place of Gary and Matilda Vermeer.
The center is to provide childcare services. 
In the first volume of Marcel Proust's novel "In Search of Lost Time", entitled "Swann's Way", the protagonist Charles Swann is said to be working on an extended essay concerning Vermeer's art.
In addition, Vermeer's "View of Delft" features in a pivotal sequence of a later volume, "The Captive", in the same work.
A Vermeer painting plays a key part of the dénouement in Agatha Christie's "After the Funeral" (1953).
Susan Vreeland's novel "Girl in Hyacinthe Blue" follows eight individuals with a relationship to a painting of Vermeer.
The young adult novel "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett centers around the fictitious theft of Vermeer's "A Lady Writing".
J.P. Smith's novel, "The Discovery of Light", deals largely with Vermeer.
The character of Barney, in Thomas Harris's novel "Hannibal" (1999), has a goal to see every Vermeer painting in the world before he dies.
Tracy Chevalier's novel "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and the film of the same name (2003) are named after the painting; they present a fictional account of its creation by Vermeer and his relationship with the (equally fictional) model.
The film was nominated for Oscars in cinematography, art direction, and costume design.
Peter Greenaway's film "A Zed & Two Noughts" (1985) contains a plot line about an orthopedic surgeon named Van Meegeren who stages highly exact scenes from Vermeer paintings in order to paint copies of them.
The Dutch composer Louis Andriessen based his opera "Writing to Vermeer" (1997–98, libretto by Peter Greenaway) on the domestic life of Vermeer.
The song "No One Was Like Vermeer" from the 2008 album Because Her Beauty Is Raw and Wild by Boston singer-songwriter Jonathan Richman pays tribute to Vermeer's painstaking technique.
Richman also references Vermeer in his song "Vincent Van Gogh" and both songs are frequently part of Richman's live performances.
"Jan Vermeer" is a rockabilly song written by Bob Walkenhorst for his solo album "The Beginner".
David Olney's song "Mister Vermeer" on his 2010 album "Dutchman's Curve" imagines Vermeer's unrequited love for the subject of Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Historian Timothy Brook's "" (2007) examines six of Vermeer's paintings for evidence of world trade and globalization during the Dutch Golden Age.
The 2013 documentary film "Tim's Vermeer" follows inventor Tim Jenison's examination on his theory that Vermeer used optical devices to assist in generating his realistic images 
Responding to the internet medium, Janson created a website called "Essential Vermeer" in 2001.
"Essential Vermeer "has developed into the primary internet resource for Vermeer studies and the most comprehensive website dedicated to a single painter.
"Essential Vermeer" presents a balanced in-depth study of the life, art and cultural milieu of Johannes Vermeer comprising hundreds of web pages, thousands of images, collaborative studies, interviews with Vermeer notables and multi-media features.
The site includes a complete interactive catalogue of the Dutch artist which permits the navigator to access extensive information on each work using images mapping and expandable topic boxes.
Janson issues a free newsletter which keeps thousands of subscribers informed about Vermeer-related exhibitions, publications and multi-media events.
Janson’s commitment has brought the "Essential Vermeer" to the attention of art historians and specialists in 17th-century Dutch art as well as writers who use it regularly as a reference point.
He travels extensively and is in constant contact with museum personnel and art historians involved with Dutch genre painting and specifically with the work of Vermeer. 
Johannes Vermeer (1632- 1675) of Delft was one of Netherlands' most prominent Dutch painters.
Specializing in interior scenes, Vermeer developed a distinct style for his many domestic paintings.
Popular with middle-class patrons, Vermeer offered glimpses into the lives of Holland's cultured citizens.
Although little is known and/ or proven about Vermeer’s life, historians do know of his baptism and life in Delft where he was raised by a craftsman father and married a Catholic girl by the name of Catherina Blones.
This marriage may have caused him to convert to Catholicism.
As an innkeeper and art dealer, Vermeer painted dozens of paintings in which specific attributes can be noted.
These attributes include the use of yellow and blue tones, the depiction of women, the use of wall coverings (maps, artwork's, etc.
), depiction of domestic tools, heavy drapery, light angels from the left, as well as prominent and telling facial expressions, and narrative-like objects.
These touches allowed Vermeer to idealize his depiction of Dutch women and their values.
Some of his most notable works include "Girl with a Pearl Earring", "The Love Letter", and "The Art of Painting", all of which share the aforementioned qualities of a true Vermeer painting. 
In 2006, Janson published his first book, "How to Paint Your Own Vermeer: The Methods and Materials of a Seventeenth-Century Master", mainly thought as a manual for practicing painters who wish to emulate the great Dutch Master’s technique and style.
In addition to the book he produced a CD, "How to Paint Your Own Vermeer.
A Painting in Progress" which documents the painting of an interior done in the style of Vermeer with sequential images that enhance the textual contents of "How to Paint Your Own Vermeer".
His second publication, "Looking Over Vermeer’s Shoulders.
A Study of the Painting Methods and Materials of Johannes Vermeer" is an adaptation from the first one, a comprehensible guide to anyone who is interested in exploring the mysterious relationship between painting technique and artistic expression, as well as the mental and physical machinery of Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest painting technicians of all time.