Title Art Markets in Europe

Published Taylor and Francis, 1998-12-23 00:00:00.0

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Description 1 online resource (263) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Foreword; Introduction: Art and its Markets; Chapter 1 : Manuscript Acquisition by the Burgundian Court and the Market for Books in the Fifteenth-Century Netherlands; Chapter 2: Some Aspects of the Origins of the Art Market in Fifteenth-Century Bruges; Chapter 3: Is Art a Barometer of Wealth? Medieval Art Exports to the Far North of Europe; Chapter 4: Artistic Enterprise and Spanish Patronage: The Art Market during the Reign of Isabel of Castile (1474-1504) Chapter 5: The Italian Renaissance Courts' Demand for the Arts: The Case of d'Este of Ferrara (1471-1560)Chapter 6: The Roman Art Market in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Chapter 7: The Upper German Trade in Art and Curiosities before the Thirty Years War; Chapter 8: Pricing the Unpriced: How Dutch Seventeenth-Century Painters determined the Selling Price of their Work; Chapter 9: Dealer-Dealer Pricing in the Mid Seventeenth-Century Antwerp to Paris Art Trade; Chapter 10: Probate Inventories, Public Sales and the Parisian Art Market in the Seventeenth Century Chapter 11 : Art Auctions in Germany during the Eighteenth CenturyChapter 12: Arenas of Connoisseurship: Auctioning Art in Later Stuart England; Chapter 13: The Origins of the London Art Market, 1660-1730; Chapter 14: Commerce and the Commodity: Graphic Display and Selling New Consumer Goods in Eighteenth-Century England; Chapter 15: Intrigue, Jewellery and Economics: Court Culture and Display in England and France in the 1780s; Bibliography; Index Summary 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 producing centres and artistic milieux; and the emergence of art markets which served to link the first two phenomena. The work draws on new 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 nineteenth century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-240) and index Notes Print version record Subject Art -- Europe -- Marketing Art, European -- 15th century Art, European -- 16th century Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History -- 15th century Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History -- 16th century Art -- Europe -- History Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History Art Art -- Collectors and collecting Art, European Art -- Marketing Kunsthandel. Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1351957058 9781351957052

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