Vermeer's Hat

Vermeer’s Hat For the Modern World, one of the most particular characteristic is the trade in globalization, people seeking and discovery the new land and started the overseas trade in 17 century. The 《Vermeer’s Hat》 accounted most scenes about international trade and the transformation of new culture and revolution. Like the writer said: “The only way to step into Vermeer’s world is through his paintings,” (Brook, Timothy. Vermeer’s Hat. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008. Print.). Brook use a novel writing skills and bring our mind into seventeenth century. Moreover, by the writer provides something more than a simple and easy historical fact, he also described some different model that people use different ways to played a role in the development of the global world. Brook started to examined the first painting is called “View of Delft”, Delft is a city located in Northland, “Memories of the seventeenth century are peculiarly present in the two great churches of Delft” (Brook, Timothy. Vermeer’s Hat. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008. Print.) though those two church did not remain, but according the structure of those places and the graves of the inscriptions were indicate most wealthier citizens of seventeenth century hold a view that “People in those days hoped to be buried as close as possible to a holy place, and better than being buried beside a church was to be interred underneath it.” (Brook, Timothy. Vermeer’s Hat. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008. Print.). It also contained many memories on it. At the first chapter, from the time of the Holland fashion beaver hats refer to its origin in North America, about Native Americans and Europeans to beaver fur trading, while the Europeans to sell the profit Europe was used to expand their conquest of North America, and find the way to Chinese road from seeking trade channels in. For the third painting- Young Woman Reading a Letter at an Open Window, we can dig out the object in this picture is A Dish of Fruit and the dish was made by China. “The decade of the 1650s is just the moment when Chinese porcelains were taking their place in Dutch art as in Dutch life. In fact, these dishes became part of the emergence of a newly popular painting genre, still lifes, which seventeenth-century Dutch artist turned into an art form.” (Brook, Timothy. Vermeer’s Hat. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008. Print.). According from the text, it was clear that Chinese porcelain has been seen as a treasure in Dutch and it also taking place in Dutch’s art strategy. Moreover, when the first Chinese porcelain arrived Europe, it amazed all of the people who saw it, one of the shocking point in the porcelain is owe to it special style, which was the blue color combine with white color, and those two simple color can produced lots of vivid articles. Depends on the limited materials and strict requirements of the production, European stared the porcelain trade with China, Jingdezhen. Additionally, before this period, “Indian trades had been bringing Chinese porcelain to the subcontinent since at least the fifteenth century. They acquired it from Chinese merchants in Southeast China, to which creamics dealers had in turn shipped it out from the interior. The development of a maritime trade route around Africa suddenly opened up a market in Europe” (Brook, Timothy. Vermeer’s Hat. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008. Print.) All of this business chain are showing us the door of global trade are already opened. The trade of porcelain is the most of important hallmark that reach extend to nowadays. Foreigners still like collect amazing Chinese porcelain in twenty century and the global trade about porcelain are never stopped. Tobacco is also seen as an important hallmark that shows the trade start with medieval World and continuing to our Modern society. At first, tobacco arrived in Europe and the first group of people started to use is were owe to soldiers and priests. Within the spread of tobacco, the demand for this herbal were going to shift up, that caused a new labor system born. “From this new labor arrangement; a new system of trade emerged. Tobacco was a crop that could be used to make the Americas profitable, while Africa supplied the labor to make plantation production in the American feasible and South American silver paid for goods shipped from Europe and the American to Asia.” In summary, it is not hard to say that by the spread of tobacco, global communicate were grew day by day. And for the Modern World, every country operate the business about import and export tobacco. In conclusion, we live in an globalization world, and much more, something once happen in a small place, all of the world will be informed immediately. The connection were appeared in a globalization is gradually formed in seventeenth Century, it is an extraordinary significance. achievements - not one of our common heritage. ", expansion and trade in seventeenth Century, confirmed this era. We are gradually entering a share weal and woe, be closely related and mutually dependent era, we are unable to split the fate of the community.

Reference:
1. Brook, Timothy. Vermeer’s Hat. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008. Print.