GLOBALIZATION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Timothy Brook’s remarkable book blends art with the emergence of global trade in the seventeenth century. Using six paintings of Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, the writer examines the impact of changing international relations, particularly in the realm of trade, on art. The title chapter of the book discusses the painting called Officer and the Laughing Girl and analyzes how the painting opens up window to the global trade connections of
“Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World”, by Timothy Brook shows how Europe got a hold of the commodities that is porcelain and tobacco and different ways that they were used. Porcelain has traveled through many countries over many years. It first originated in China but was then traded into India. It was sent to Persia because of restrictions in the Koran forced people to find other things to serve their guests. The porcelain was mostly in Europe because of the need