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In one painting, a Dutch military officer leans towards a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. In a third, fruit spills form a porcelain bowl onto a Turkish carpet. Vermeer’s images haut us with their beauty and mystery. What stories lies behind these exquisitely rendered moments? Throughout these intimate pictures, Timothy Brook shows the rapidly expanding world of the seventeenth century from the beaver-trappers of Canada and the silver mines of the Americas ...Vis mer