Vermeers Hat: The Seventeenth Century And The Dawn Of The Global World by Timothy Brook

Vermeers Hat: The Seventeenth Century And The Dawn Of The Global World

Timothy Brook

288 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction art economics history mysterious tense slow-paced
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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 behind these stunningly ...

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