1st Edition
Art Market and Connoisseurship A Closer Look at Paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and Their Contemporaries
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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The question whether or not seventeenth century painters such as Rembrandt and Rubens created the paintings which were later sold under their names, has caused many a heated debate. Much is still unknown about the ways in which paintings were produced, assessed, priced, and marketed. For example, did contemporary connoisseurs expect masters such as Rembrandt to paint their works entirely by their... Read more
Determining Value on the Art Market in the Golden Age, 'By His Hand': the Paradox of 17th-Century Connoisseurship, Supply and Demand: some Notes in the Economy of the 17th-Century Connoisseurship, 'Painters pencell move not without that musicke': process of Southern Netherlandish Painted Altarpieces bet ween 1585 and 1650, The Painter versus the Connoisseur? The Best Judge of Pictures in 17th-Century Theory and Practice, The Rise of the Dealer-Auctioneer in Paris: Information and Transparnancy in a Market for Netherlandish Paintings, Plates.
Biography
Anna Tummers is Curator of Old Masters at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem. Koenraad Jonckheere is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam.
