Vermeer's hat : the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world / Timothy Brook.
Vermeer's hat : the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world / Timothy Brook.
Vermeer's hat : the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world / Timothy Brook.
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Publisher
New York : Bloomsbury Press : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.
Date
2008.
Call Numbers
N909.6/3
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Language
English
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Physical content
272 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. The View from Delft -- 2. Vermeer's Hat -- 3. A Dish of Fruit -- 4. Geography Lessons -- 5. School for Smoking -- 6. Weighing Silver -- 7. Journeys -- 8. Endings: No Man is an Island -- App. Chinese and Japanese Publications.
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Publisher
New York : Bloomsbury Press : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2008.
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Summary
"In one painting, a Dutch military Officer Leans toward a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. In a third, fruit spills from a porcelain bowl onto a Turkish carpet. Vermeer's images haunt us with their beauty and mystery - what stories lie behind these exquisitely rendered moments? As Timothy Brook shows us in Ver...
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Vermeer's hat : the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world / Timothy Brook.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-262) and index.
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N909.6/3
Record Identifier
74VK3GmvMDKb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3GmvMDKb
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ISBN
1596914440
9781596914445
DDC
909.6
MMS ID
991023831699702626
