09-20-09, 10:55 AM
|
#80 (permalink)
|
|
Aximsite Legend
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: CPH DK EU
Posts: 19,509
Thanked 65 Times in 64 Posts
|
Originally Posted by hstn
|
|
Timothy Brook, Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World. Using details found in Vermeer's paintings (and a few others), Brook brilliantly conveys life in that dynamic century. He connects the people of Delft with the rest of the world--directly through their perilous travels, and indirectly through the many consumer goods being exchanged.
|
Interesting book - 
|
|
|