Art Markets in Europe, 1400-1600

The reinvention of art history during the 1980s has provided a serious challenge to earlier formalist and connoisseurial approaches to the discipline, in ways which can only help economic and social historians in the drive to study past societies in terms of what they consumed, produced, perceived and imagined. This group of essays focuses on three main issues: the demand for art, including the range of art objects purchased by various social groups; the conditions of artistic creativity and communication between different production centres and artistic millieux; and the emergence of art markets which serve to link the first two phenomena. The work draws on research by art historians and economic and social historians from Europe and the United States, and covers the period from the late Middle Ages to the early 19th century.

ISBN 1840146303   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9781840146301 (What's this?)   Pages 288 Publisher Ashgate Publishing Group   Volumes 001 Imprint Ashgate Publishing Limited   Weight (grammes) 726 Format Hardback   Published in Aldershot Publication date 23 Dec 1998   Height (mm) 162 Non-book description 162 X 240   Width (mm) 240 Library of Congress N8600.A737   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 380.145709409024

		List of Illustrations
		List of Contributors
		Foreword
		Introduction: Art and its Markets by Michael North and David Ormrod		1
Ch. 1		Manuscript Acquisition by the Burgundian Court and the Market for Books in the Fifteenth-Century Netherlands by Wim Blockmans		7
Ch. 2		Some Aspects of the Origins of the Art Market in Fifteenth-Century Bruges by Maximiliaan P. J. Martens		19
Ch. 3		Is Art a Barometer of Wealth? Medieval Art Exports to the Far North of Europe by Jan von Bonsdorff		29
Ch. 4		Artistic Enterprise and Spanish Patronage: The Art Market during the Reign of Isabel of Castile (1474-1504) by Mari-Tere Alvarez		45
Ch. 5		The Italian Renaissance Courts' Demand for the Arts: The Case of d'Este of Ferrara (1471-1560) by Guido Guerzoni		61
Ch. 6		The Roman Art Market in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Volker Reinhardt		81
Ch. 7		The Upper German Trade in Art and Curiosities before the Thirty Years War by Renate Pieper		93
Ch. 8		Pricing the Unpriced: How Dutch Seventeenth-Century Painters determined the Selling Price of their Work by Marten Jan Bok		103
Ch. 9		Dealer-Dealer Pricing in the Mid Seventeenth-Century Antwerp to Paris Art Trade by Neil De Marcht and Hans J. Van Miegroet and Matthew E. Raiff		113
Ch. 10		Probate Inventories, Public Sales and the Parisian Art Market in the Seventeenth Century by Antoine Schnapper		131
Ch. 11		Art Auctions in Germany during the Eighteenth Century by Thomas Ketelsen		143
Ch. 12		Arenas of Connoisseurship: Auctioning Art in Later Stuart England by Brian Cowan		153
Ch. 13		The Origins of the London Art Market, 1660-1730 by David Ormrod		167
Ch. 14		Commerce and the Commodity: Graphic Display and Selling New Consumer Goods in Eighteenth-Century England by Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford		187
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