Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook
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Book Summary Author: Timothy Brook Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2007-12-26 ISBN: 1596914440 Number of pages: 288 Publisher: Bloomsbury Press |
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Book Reviews of the Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
Customer Review: As interesting as Jonathan Spence and Simon Schama
Summary: 5 Stars
A fascinating, erudite but easy-to-read series of chapters on trade, exploration, cross-cultural influence and physical culture, using 17th century Delft as the starting point. but reaching around the globe to Asia and the Americas. I'm a huge Vermeer fan and I visited Delft last April, so the book had an added resonance to me. Although you don't need to be an art lover to appreciate the book, a familiarity with Vermeer makes the argument event more interesting. I visited the Frick Collection yesterday and saw the image on the cover for the 20th time and noticed things I'd never realized before. The book brings to mind Jonathan Spence's "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci" and the Simon Schama's "The Embarassment of Riches," (both authors blurbed this book) although it's probably an easier read than either. If you like books like those and "Longitude," you'll love this. Not so much an art history book -- and not a replacement for the other books on Vermeer as an artist -- but a cultural historian's look at an important era in the opening up of the world.