Download the fantastic book titled Vermeers Hat written by Timothy Brook, available in its entirety in both PDF and EPUB formats for online reading. This page includes a concise summary, a preview of the book cover, and detailed information about "Vermeers Hat", which was released on 22 October 2013. We suggest perusing the summary before initiating your download. This book is a top selection for enthusiasts of the Art genre.
Summary of Vermeers Hat by Timothy Brook PDF
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 rendered moments? As Timothy Brook shows us, these pictures, which seem so intimate, actually offer a remarkable view of a rapidly expanding world. The dashing officer’s hat is of beaver fur from Canada, while the pieces of silver, mined in Peru, might be used to purchase the Chinese porcelain seen in other Vermeer paintings. Moving outward from Vermeer’s studio, Brook traces the web of trade that was spreading across the globe in the seventeenth century. 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 powerfully than we have yet understood.
Detail About Vermeers Hat PDF
- Author : Timothy Brook
- Publisher : Penguin Canada
- Genre : Art
- Total Pages : 288 pages
- ISBN : 0143191004
- Release Date : 22 October 2013
- PDF File Size : 35,8 Mb
- Language : English
- Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews
Clicking on the GET BOOK button will initiate the downloading process of Vermeers Hat by Timothy Brook. This book is available in ePub and PDF format with a single click unlimited downloads.