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Sto caricando le informazioni... Le chapeau de Vermeer (originale 2008; edizione 2012)di Timothy Brook (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaVermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World di Timothy Brook (Author) (2008)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Historian Brook uses the Delft of Johannes Vermeer as the reference point for examining the expansion of globalization in the seventeenth century. Brook identifies objects or persons in 17th century Dutch artworks that link Delft with the wider world. Since Brook specializes in Chinese history, it’s not surprising that most of the paths he follows lead to China. While the term “globalization” may have entered common usage only in the late 20th century, it’s clear that its effects have been visible since at least the seventeenth century. ( ) 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. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)909.6History and Geography History World history 1600-1699Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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