Early modern merchants as collectors / edited by Christina M. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Anderson, Christina M. (Christina Marie), 1966- editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Conference Name:

Early Modern Merchants as Collectors (Conference) (2012 : Ashmolean Museum), author.

Series:

Visual culture in early modernity ; 52.

Visual culture in early modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merchants as collectors--Congresses.

Merchants as collectors.

Collectors and collecting--History--Congresses.

Collectors and collecting.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 265 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

Early Modern Merchants as Collectors' encourages the rethinking of collecting not as an elite, often aristocratic pursuit, but rather as a vital activity that has engaged many different groups within society. The essays included in this volume consider merchants not only as important collectors in their own right, as opposed to merely agents or middlemen, but also as innovators who determined taste. Through bringing together contributions on merchant collectors across a wide geographical spread, including England, The Netherlands, Venice, Safavid Iran, China and Japan, among other locations, it aims to challenge the often Eurocentric view of the study of collecting that has shaped the discipline to date. The early modern period and its wunderkammern formed the subject of some of the earliest, foundational texts on collecting. This volume expands on such previous scholarship, taking a more in-depth look at a particular class of collectors and investigating their motivations, social and economic circumstances, and the intellectual ideas and purposes that informed their collecting.0It offers a fresh approach to the understanding of the role of merchants in early modern societies and will serve as a resource to historians of art, science, museums, culture and economics, as well as to scholars of transcultural studies.

Contents:

Beginning to collect

Behaving as collectors

The role of provenance

Collecting for a specific purpose

Dealers as collectors

Later generations of merchant collectors

Merchants and collectors in the Islamicate world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781472469823

1472469828

OCLC:

967318610