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Titre(s) : Early modern merchants as collectors [Texte imprimé] / edited by Christina M. Anderson
Publication : New York : Routledge, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (x, 265 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Collection : Visual culture in early modernity ; 52
Lien à la collection : Visual culture in early modernity
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Anderson, Christina Marie (1966-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Art -- Collectionneurs et collections
Commerçants -- 16e siècle
Genre ou forme : Actes de congrès
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781472469823 (alk. paper). - ISBN 1472469828 (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb450996403
Notice n° :
FRBNF45099640
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