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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World (Hardcover)

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (26 Dec 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1596914440
ISBN-13: 978-1596914445
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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'Brook takes you into the paintings in a way that can be spookily intimate' William Leith, Evening Standard --William Leith, Evening Standard

`An erudite, surprising book that finds traces of swashbuckling where you'd least expect' --Daily Telegraph

'Truly mesmerising.' --Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday

`Illuminating footnotes to Vermeer's miracles on canvas'
--Independent --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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`How brilliantly Brook connects all with all' Guardian --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtaking, 24 Jul 2008

By	Paul Callick (manchester) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world (Hardcover)

Simply, a beautiful and breathtaking book. Full of marvels and curiousities, each chapter opens out to show the wider maps and ideas we thought we knew about...small details from the paintings are peered closely at, and behind them the seventeenth-century world of travel and trade, narrated through human encounters and stories. He writes wonderfully well and with such clarity about often complex issues, effortlessly moving the focus and scene from place to place: so there's a lovely rhythm about the book as he paces the (frequent) surprises subtly and narrates them with a drole and deceptively easy style. I started to read the other day and was still sat there seven hours later, transfixed by it, slowing up the pace of reading, not wanting it to end.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A New Perspective, 25 Jul 2008

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This book is an interesting new perspective in Vermeer studies, looking at the objects in his paintings from the point of view of the expanding trade networks of the 17th century. It is engagingly written and he wears his scholarship lightly.

I was disappointed the author did not investigate Vermeer's famous blue colour (anachronistically called "cobalt blue" in the book), since the ultramarine would itself have come from a complex trade network, and how it came to Delft would itself have made quite a story.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Marvellous, 21 April 2009

By	D. P. Mankin (Ceredigion, Wales) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world (Hardcover)

This is a wonderfully well written text that uses items featured in Vermeer's paintings to provide a highly informative and fascinating account of trade and exploration in the 17th Century (the Dutch Golden Age as it is often referred to). Unlike a couple of the other reviewers I felt it was worth every penny. The author is clearly extremely knowledgeable about the period and has a confident writing style. He provides some lucidly written accounts that focus on specific individuals and events. This approach works very well and provides you with some fascinating insights. If you are interested in this period then I strongly recommend this text to you.

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