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"Discusses how the moments captured in the paintings of Johannes Vermeer portray the increasing globalization of the seventeenth century, identifying significant objects and explaining how they document economical, industrial, and societal changes around the world."
"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 behi."@en
""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. Vermeer's images haunt us with their beauty and mystery--what stories lie 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." "The dashing officer's 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 porcelains so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time." "Timothy Brook traces the rapidly growing web of trade that might bring a beaver pelt, a Turkish carpet, or a Chinese bowl to a sitting room in Delft. 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 thoroughly than anyone quite realized. It offers us a rich new understanding both of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray."--Publisher description."@en
""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. Vermeer's images haunt us with their beauty and mystery - what stories lie 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." "The dashing officer's 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 porcelains so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time." "Timothy Brook traces the rapidly growing web of trade that might bring a beaver pelt, a Turkish carpet, or a Chinese bowl to a sitting room in Delft. 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 thoroughly than anyone quite realized. It offers us a rich new understanding both of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray."--Jacket."@en
"From the epicentre of Delft in the Netherlands, Timothy Brook takes the paintings of Johannes Vermeer and uses details of them as a series of entry points in the widest circles of world trade and cultural exchange in the 17th century."
"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 haunti."@en

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"Electronic books"
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"History"
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"Livres électroniques"

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"Vermeer s Hat : The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World"
"維梅爾的帽子"
"Vermeer's Hat the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world"@en
"維梅爾的帽子 : 從一幅畫看十七世紀全球貿易"
"Wei mei er de mao zi"
"Vermeer's hat : the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world"
"Vermeer's hat : the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world"@en
"Le chapeau de Vermeer : le XVIIe à l'aube de la mondialisation"
"Le chapeau de Vermeer : le XVIIe siècle à l'aube de la mondialisation"
"De hoed van Vermeer : de Gouden Eeuw en het ontwaken van de wereldeconomie"
"Vermeer's hat the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world"
"Vermeer's hat the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world"@en
"Vermeer's hat : the 17th century and the dawn of the global world"@en
"Vermeer's hat : the 17th century and the dawn of the global world"
"Le chapeau de Vermeer le XVIIe à l'aube de la mondialisation"
"Wei mei er de mao zi : cong yi fu hua kan shi qi shi ji quan qiu mao yi"
"维梅尔的帽子"

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