Vermeer's Hat

The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world

Timothy Brook

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English

Profile
25 September 2009

Art & design styles: Baroque; History; General & world history; European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700

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 the time.

Vermeer's haunting images hint at the stories 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.

By: Timothy Brook
Imprint: Profile
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9781846681202
ISBN 10: 1846681200
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 25 September 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Timothy Brook holds the Shaw Chair in Chinese Studies at Oxford University. He is the author of many books, including the award-winning Confusions of Pleasure.

Reviews for Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world

* 'A brilliant attempt to make us understand the reach and breadth of the first global age' - Guardian * 'Spell-binding... as a guide to the world behind the pictures Vermeer's Hat is mind-expanding' - John Carey