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Codices illustres : the world's most famous illuminated manuscripts, 400 to 1600

by Ingo Walther, Norbert Wolf

Using details from Johannes Vermeer's paintings, this book explores the seventeenth-century web of global trade and cultural exchange. It connects everyday objects in Dutch art to the international movement of goods, from Canadian beaver pelts to Chinese porcelain.

Accession 11381 ISBN 9781846681127 Publisher Taschen
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