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

missing duration info Add in missing duration information first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction art economics history mysterious tense slow-paced
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A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another canvas, fruit spills from a blue and white porcelain bowl. Familiar images that captivate us with their beauty--but as Timothy Brook shows ...

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