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

Brook, Timothy
Heftet / 2009 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781846681202
Publisert
2009-07-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Profile Books Ltd
Vekt
220 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Brook, Timothy

Om bidragsyterne

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.

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

Brook, Timothy
Heftet / 2009 / Engelsk
Brook, Timothy
Heftet / 2009 / Engelsk
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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

Se alle

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

'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.
Les mer
Offers an understanding of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray.
As a record-breaking, rapturously reviewed exhibition at the Rijksmuseum gathers together more paintings by Vermeer than have ever been shown in the same place, Vermeer's Hat is a fascinating examination of the world in which the Old Master painted.
Les mer

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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

Se alle

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

'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.
Les mer
Offers an understanding of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray.
As a record-breaking, rapturously reviewed exhibition at the Rijksmuseum gathers together more paintings by Vermeer than have ever been shown in the same place, Vermeer's Hat is a fascinating examination of the world in which the Old Master painted.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781846681202
Publisert
2009-07-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Profile Books Ltd
Vekt
220 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Brook, Timothy

Om bidragsyterne

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.

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