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The Birth of the Art Market

 

Seminar questions

1. Where was the art market born?
2. What were the preconditions for the development of an art market in early modern Europe?
3. Was the 鈥渃ommodification鈥� of art a purely Dutch phenomenon?

4. What the birth of an art market tell us about the structure of the Dutch Republic鈥檚 economy in the seventeenth century?

 

Suggested reading

Alpers, Svetlana, Rembrandt鈥檚 Enterprise. The Studio and the Market, Chicago 1988, ch. 4 [ND 653.R3]

Benedict, Philip, 鈥楾owards the Comparative Study of the Popular Market for Art: The Ownership of Paintings in Seventeenth-Century Metz鈥�, Past and Present, 109 (1985), pp. 100-117 

Campbell, Lorne, 鈥楾he Art Market in the Southern Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century鈥�, The Burlington Magazine, 118 (1976), pp. 188-198

 

De Marchi, Neil – Van Miegroet, Hans J., 鈥楢rt, Value and Market Practices in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century鈥�, Art Bulletin, 76 (1994), pp. 451-465

 

De Marchi, Neil – Van Miegroet, Hans J.,, 鈥楴ovelty and Fashion Circuits in the Mid-Seventeenth Century Antwerp-Paris Art Trade鈥�, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 28 (1998), pp. 201-246

 

De Marchi, Neil – Van Miegroet, Hans J., 鈥楨xploring Markets for Netherlandish Paintings in Spain and Nueva Espa帽a鈥�, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, (2000), pp. 80-111

 

De Marchi, Neil – Van Miegroet, Hans J. (eds.), Mapping Markets for Paintings in Europe, 1450-1750, Turnhout 2006

 

Ewing, Dan, 鈥楳arketing Art in Antwerp, 1460-1560: Our Lady鈥檚 Pand鈥�, Art Bulletin, 72 (1990), pp. 558-584

 

Fantoni, Marcello - Matthew, Louise C. - Matthews-Grieco, Sarah F. (eds.), The Art Market in Italy, 15th-17th Centuries, Modena 2003 [N 8605.I8]

 

Freedberg, David - de Vries, Jan (eds.), Art in History: History in Art. Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture, Santa Monica (CA) 1991

 

Haskell, Francis, 鈥楾he Market for Italian Art in the 17th Century, in Past and Present, 15 (1959)

 

Israel, Jonathan I., The Dutch Republic. Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806, Oxford 1995, chs. 23, 33 [DJ 156.I8]

 

Montias, John Michael, 鈥楻eflections on Historical Materialism, Economic Theory and the History of Art in the Context of Renaissance and 17^th-Century Painting鈥�, Journal of Cultural Economics, 5 (1981), pp. 19-38 [Arts Periodicals]

 

Montias, John Michael, Artists and Artisans in Delft: A Socio-Economic Study of the Seventeenth Century, Princeton 1982 [N 6946.M6]

 

Montias, John Michael, Vermeer and His Milieu: A Web of Social History, Princeton 1989 [ND 653.V3]

 

Montias, John Michael, 鈥楽ocio-Economic Aspects of Netherlandish Art from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century鈥�, Art Bulletin, 72 (1990), pp. 358-373

 

 

North, Michael, 鈥楢rt and Commerce in the Dutch Republic鈥�, in A Miracle Mirrored. The Dutch Republic in European Perspective, eds. Karel Davids and Jan Lucassen, Cambridge 1995, pp. 284-302

 

North, Michael, Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age, New Haven-London 1997 [ND 646.N6]

 

North, Michael - Ormrod, David (eds.), Art Markets in Europe, 1400-1800, Aldershot 1998

 

Ormrod, David, 鈥楢rt and Its Markets鈥�, The Economic History Review, new series, 52 (1999), pp. 544-551

 

Schama, Simon, Rembrandt鈥檚 Eye, London 2000 [ND 653.R3]

 

Wilson, Jane C., Painting in Bruges at the close of the Middle Ages: studies in society and visual culture, University Park, Pa., 1998, ch. 5 [ND 671.B7]