Summary Of The Painting Vermeer's Hat

Decent Essays
ssie Sisavat
Professor Duarte
Hist 51
October 12 2015 Vermeer’s Hat

The book informs us that the Vermeer’s pictures capture how the world was based on global trade. It depicts how the Dutch trading company was a major part of the trade. The picture that Vermeer display shows for instance a European explorers receive from the Indigenous people and ships sailing to China to build a strong trading connection between the European and Asian empire. The world that Vermeer’s was living in was an intimate experience because he depicts the world he lived in to be as wide as ours and probably very busy. The Author wanted to express how the Dutch was pretty much talked about throughout the whole book. During the early 1600’s and mid 1650’s the Dutch have started and dramatically travelled the world. The Dutch was one of the first to travel the world by
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Vermeer paintings were considered to be extraordinary because his painting does not exclude any foreign objects within his paintings. His paintings would have symbols or art of some kind from different continental regions which means the Dutch wasn’t to present that trading from other areas is a core principle of the Dutch trading company. The painting analyzes how maps, Asian goods, and people within the painting give a clue of how the Dutch’s was globally presence.
It seem to have many strengths because during the 16th and 17th century was a strict and global grounds that are available to the European powers. It shows that the wealthy and the poor were segregated just as much as today. However the only difference from today’s world is that there are opportunities to become rich and have a better living condition. What also did not see much were the diseases that globally affected the world within Vermeer’s paintings. It may seem to only show the positive side of trading and how the world creates a dialogue with each other

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