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Vermeer's Hat

by Timothy Brook

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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 paintings  haunt us with their beauty and mystery—what stories lay behi... Read more
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 paintings  haunt us with their beauty and mystery—what stories lay 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 , wrote a French visitor, were “an inventory of the possible.” Vermeer’s Hat  shows just how rich this inventory was, and how the urge to acquire such things  was refashioning the world more powerfully than we have yet understood. Less

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Publication date July 9, 2010
Languageeng
ISBN9781847652546
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Timothy Brook
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Timothy Brook is a professor of Chinese history at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. The author of eight books on Chinese history, he is also editor-in-chief of the six-volume H...

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