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

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



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Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Page: 288
ISBN: 9781596914445


In one painting, a military officer in a Dutch sitting room flirts with a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. Vermeer's images haunt us with their beauty and mystery-what stories lie behind these stunningly rendered moments? As Timothy Brook shows us, these pictures, which seem so intimate, actually offer a remarkable view of a rapidly expanding world. The dashing officer's hat is of beaver fur from Canada, while the pieces of silver, mined in Peru, might be used to purchase the Chinese porcelain seen in other Vermeer paintings. Moving outward from Vermeer's studio, Brook traces the web of trade that was spreading across the globe in the seventeenth century. The wharves of Holland, ...

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