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

Timothy Brook

272 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction art economics history mysterious tense slow-paced
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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...

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