Tuesday, June 8, 2010

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



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In the hands of an award-winning historian, Vermeer’s dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought—from Delft to Beijing—were transformed in the seventeenth century, when the world first became global. A painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. Vermeer’s images captivate us with their beauty and mystery: What stories lie b... More >>

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

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