Art market and connoisseurship : a closer look at paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and their contemporaries /

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Imprint:[Amsterdam, Netherlands] : Amsterdam Univ. Press, ©2008.
Description:1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
Series:Amsterdam studies in the Dutch golden age
Amsterdam studies in the Dutch golden age.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11190795
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Other authors / contributors:Tummers, Anna.
Jonckheere, Koenraad.
ISBN:9789048502370
9048502373
9789089640321
9089640320
1282067907
9781282067905
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
English.
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Summary:This essential volume traces the evolution of connoisseurship in the booming art market of the seventeenth- and eighteenth centuries. Not to be missed by anyone with an interest in the Old Masters and the early modern art market.
Other form:Print version: Art market and connoisseurship. [Amsterdam, Netherlands] : Amsterdam Univ. Press, ©2008 9789089640321 9089640320
Table of 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 Tummers
  • Supply and demand : some notes on the economy of seventeenth-century connoisseurship / Koenraad Jonckheere
  • 'Painters pencells move not without the musicke' : prices of Southern Netherlandish painted altarpieces 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.