Vermeer's Hat. The 17th Century and the Dawn of Global Peace
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Vermeer's Hat. The 17th Century and the Dawn of Global Peace
49.99 €
What do the seventeenth-century Netherlands and China have in common, between Vermeer and the Chinese painter Dong Qichang? How do curious objects on Vermeer's canvases and seemingly insignificant details help us understand the distant world of the Orient?
Timothy Brook draws attention to the curious objects on Vermeer's canvases, and the story about them leads the reader to an understanding of the distant world of the East. For the first time in Russian bestseller Canadian historian, writer and world-renowned expert on China. The book was awarded the Mark Linton Prize of Columbia University of New York and the Auguste Pavie Prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences. Timothy Brook is one of the most respected historians of China, a professor at Stanford, Oxford, and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The unexpected parallels Brooke draws between the Western and Eastern worlds in his book are both puzzling and genuinely interesting. The story begins with the author's fall from his bicycle in Dutch Delft, which forces him to explore the city, and... fall in love with it. The narrator asks questions that lead him to the artist Jan Vermeer and, strangely enough, send him to Shanghai. The author's intention is that the paintings become windows through which we see how everyday life - from Delft to Beijing - and with it, people's thinking, changed when the world became global in the seventeenth century.
Timothy Brook draws attention to the curious objects on Vermeer's canvases, and the story about them leads the reader to an understanding of the distant world of the East. For the first time in Russian bestseller Canadian historian, writer and world-renowned expert on China. The book was awarded the Mark Linton Prize of Columbia University of New York and the Auguste Pavie Prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences. Timothy Brook is one of the most respected historians of China, a professor at Stanford, Oxford, and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The unexpected parallels Brooke draws between the Western and Eastern worlds in his book are both puzzling and genuinely interesting. The story begins with the author's fall from his bicycle in Dutch Delft, which forces him to explore the city, and... fall in love with it. The narrator asks questions that lead him to the artist Jan Vermeer and, strangely enough, send him to Shanghai. The author's intention is that the paintings become windows through which we see how everyday life - from Delft to Beijing - and with it, people's thinking, changed when the world became global in the seventeenth century.
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