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Item Details
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VERMEER'S HAT
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AND THE DAWN OF THE GLOBAL WORLD |
| By: |
Timothy Brook |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1847652549 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781847652546 |
| Publisher: |
PROFILE BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
9 July, 2010 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Translated from: |
English |
| Description: |
From the epicentre of Delft in the Netherlands, the author takes the paintings of Johannes Vermeer and uses details of them as a series of entry points to the widest circles of world trade and cultural exchange in the seventeenth century. His vision embraces many stories - of an African slave and a Chinese aesthete, and of Vermeer himself. |
| Synopsis: |
In one painting, a Dutch military officer leans toward a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. In a third, fruit spills from a porcelain bowl onto a Turkish carpet. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur, which European explorers got from Native Americans in exchange for weapons. Beaver pelts, in turn, financed the voyages of sailors seeking new routes to China. There - with silver mined in Peru - Europeans would purchase, by the thousands, the porcelain so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time. Vermeer's haunting images hint at the stories behind these exquisitely rendered moments. As Timothy Brook shows us in Vermeer's Hat, these pictures, which seem so intimate, actually open doors onto a rapidly expanding world. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Profile Books Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Mark Lynton History Prize 2009 (UK) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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