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Art market and connoisseurship : a closer look at paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and their contemporaries / edited by Anna Tummers and Koenraad Jonckheere.
LIBRA N5200 .A78 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Amsterdam studies in the Dutch golden age
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Collectors and collecting.
- Art.
- Art as an investment.
- Art--Marketing.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- The question of whether seventeenth-century painters such as Rembrandt and Rubens were exclusively responsible for the paintings later sold under their names has caused many a heated debate. Despite the rise of scholarship on the history of the art market, much is still unknown about the ways in which paintings were produced, assessed, priced, and marketed during this period, which leads to several provocative questions: did contemporary connoisseurs expect masters such as Rembrandt to paint works entirely by their own hand? Who was credited with the ability to assess paintings as genuine? The contributors to this engaging collection--Eric Jan Sluijter, Hans Van Miegroet, and Neil De Marchi, among them--trace these issues through the booming art market of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, arriving at fascinating and occasionally unexpected conclusions.
- Contents:
- Determining value on the art market in the golden age : an introduction / Eric Jan Sluijter
- 'By his hand' : the paradox of seventeenth-century connoisseurship / Anna Timmers
- Supply and demand : some notes on the economy of seventeenth-century connoisseurship / Koenraad Jonckheere
- 'Painters pencells move not without that musicke' : prices of southern Netherlandish painted alterpieces between 1585 and 1650 / Natasja Peeters
- The painter versus the connoisseur? : the best judge of pictures in seventeenth-century theory and practice / Anna Tummers
- The rise of the dealer-auctioneer in Paris : information and transparency in a market for Netherlandish paintings / Neil De Marchi and Hans J. Van Miegroet.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789089640321
- 9089640320
- OCLC:
- 268787788
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