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vermeers hat the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
elegant and quietly important ... brook does more than merely sketch the beginnings of globalization and highlight the forces that brought our modern world into being ; rather he offers a timely reminder of humanitys interdependence . seattle times p a painting shows a military officer in a dutch sitting room talking to a laughing girl . i n another a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver . vermeers images captivate us with their beauty and mystery what stories lie behind these stunningly rendered moments as t imothy brook shows us these pictures which seem so intimate actually offer a remarkable view of a rapidly expanding world . moving outward from vermeers studio brook traces the web of trade that was spreading across the globe . vermeers hat shows how the urge to acquire foreign goods was refashioning the world more powerfully than we have yet understood .
paperback bloomsbury press 2008 isbn13 9781596915992 isbn10 1596915994
abridged n isbn 13 9781596915992 number in series 1 number of pages 272 publisher st martins pr release date 1229990400000