Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the

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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global.

A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another canvas, fruit spills from a blue-and-white porcelain bowl. Familiar images that captivate us with their beauty--but as Timothy Brook shows us, these intimate pictures actually give us a remarkable view of an expanding world. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur from North America, and it was beaver pelts from America that financed the voyages of explorers seeking routes to China-prized for the porcelains so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time, including Vermeer's. In this dazzling history, Timothy Brook uses Vermeer's works, and other contemporary images from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to trace the rapidly growing web of global trade, and the explosive, transforming, and sometimes destructive changes it wrought in the age when globalization really began.

Country	USA
Author	Timothy Brook
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781596917279
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Bloomsbury Press
Manufacturer	Bloomsbury Press
NumberOfPages	289
PublicationDate	2010-08-01
Publisher	Bloomsbury Press
ReleaseDate	2010-08-01
Studio	Bloomsbury Press

Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

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