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Carregando... Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World (2008)de Timothy Brook
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Brook guides us through studies of numerous, mostly Vermeer, paintings and objets d'art; and from each one chooses what he calls a 'door' to help us understand the rapidly globalizing world of the seventeenth century. A clever, imaginative, and thought-provoking book. ( ) seniális témaválasztás! Rendkívül ollvasmányos formában kelti fel a figyelmet a világkereskedelem, globalizáció, földrajzi felfedezések, népek-nemzetek keveredése és egymásra hatása irtánt. Igazi élmény az olvasása, nagyon jó a nézőpont és hihetetlen távolságokat fog át térben, ill. emberi sorsok és nemzettörténetek alakulása kapcsán. A partir de la descripción pormenorizada de algunos de los cuadros más emblemáticos del pintor de Delft, Brook estudia el súbito intercambio de mercancías a escala global, entre Europa, América y Asia, que se desarrolla a lo largo del siglo XVII. Es la historia de las expediciones para penetrar en nuevos territorios y el comercio de tabaco, porcelana y otros objetos que pronto causaron furor en el mundo entero. También es la historia del choque de civilizaciones entre Europa y Asia, el papel de los jesuitas en China y Japón, los naufragios, los abordajes de piratas, las guerras de conquista, el sometimiento de los pueblos nativos. Es, en muchas de sus páginas, un auténtico libro de aventuras. Una apasionante historia de la economía y la cultura de la época. Each chapter of this book takes a commodity that is in a Vermeer painting and describes the circumstances of how came to be there. This is an economic history of trade in the early seventeenth century that takes the reader on a journey from the silver mines of Potosi to the porcelain factories of China and the tobacco plantations of Virginia. A fascinating story of an early phase in globalisation. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"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 Vermeer's Hat, these pictures, which seem so intimate, actually open doors onto a rapidly expanding world." "The dashing officer's hat is made of beaver fur, which European explorers got from Native Americans in exchange for weapons. Beaver pelts, in turn, financed the voyages of sailors seeking new routes to China. There - with silver mined in Peru - Europeans would purchase, by the thousands, the porcelains so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time." "Timothy Brook traces the rapidly growing web of trade that might bring a beaver pelt, a Turkish carpet, or a Chinese bowl to a sitting room in Delft. The wharves of Holland, wrote a French visitor, were "an inventory of the possible." Vermeer's Hat shows just how rich this inventory was, and how the urge to acquire such things was refashioning the world more thoroughly than anyone quite realized. It offers us a rich new understanding both of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray."--BOOK JACKET. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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