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Timothy Brook - Vermeer's Hat - 9781846681202 - KHD0000874
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Vermeer's Hat

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Description for Vermeer's Hat paperback. Offers an understanding of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: ACQB; HBG; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 254.
'Effortless and compelling, Brooks is a wonderful storyteller. I doubt I will read a better book this year.' Sunday Telegraph Each of Vermeer's paintings tells a story. In one, a military officer leans toward a laughing girl; in another, a woman stands by a window and weighs silver; in a third, fruit spills from a porcelain bowl onto a lavish Turkish carpet. Hiding in plain sight, these details hint at the intricate threads that bound Vermeer's world together - the officer's hat is made from North American beaver, bought with silver extracted from the mines of Peru, while beaver pelts were traded in their thousands for the Chinese porcelain so beloved by the Dutch in the Golden Age. From a view of Delft, Vermeer gives us the world. As a new Vermeer exhibition opens at the Rijksmuseum, the largest of its kind in history, Vermeer's Hat offers a fascinating perspective on how the burgeoning forces of trade and commerce shaped Vermeer's masterpieces.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Profile Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846681202
SKU
KHD0000874
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Timothy Brook
Timothy Brook is a professor of Chinese history at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. The author of eight books on Chinese history, he is also editor-in-chief of the six-volume History of Imperial China from Harvard University Press. Vermeer's Hat is his most widely read book.

Reviews for Vermeer's Hat
Fascinating
Monty Don Spell-binding ... as a guide to the world behind the pictures Vermeer's Hat is mind-expanding
John Carey
Sunday Times
A brilliant attempt to make us understand the reach and breadth of the first global age
Kathryn Hughes
Guardian
Brook takes you into the paintings in a way that can be spookily intimate
William Leith
Evening Standard
Brook is a gifted storyteller... spellbinding... a treasure trove of astonishing pleasures
The Lady
How brilliantly Brook connects all with all
Guardian
Revelatory
Sunday Business Post
Illuminating footnotes to Vermeer's miracles on canvas
Independent
An erudite, surprising book that finds traces of swashbuckling where you'd least expect
Thomas Marks
Daily Telegraph
Truly mesmerising. In this accessible but authoritative study, he... shows better than anyone I've read so far, the truly subversive power of detail
Lesley McDowell
Independent on Sunday

Goodreads reviews for Vermeer's Hat


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