Lotteries Art Markets And Visual Culture In The Low Countries 15th 17th Centuries
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Author |
: Sophie Raux |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 389 |
Release |
: 2018-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004358812 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004358811 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture in the Low Countries, 15th-17th Centuries by : Sophie Raux
Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture examines lotteries as devices for distributing images and art objects, and constructing their value in the former Low Countries. Alongside the fairs and before specialist auction sales were established, they were an atypical but popular and large-scale form of the art trade. As part of a growing entrepreneurial sensibility based on speculation and a sense of risk, they lay behind many innovations. This study looks at their actors, networks and strategies. It considers the objects at stake, their value, and the forms of visual communication intended to boost an appetite for ownership. Ultimately, it contemplates how the lottery culture impacted notions of Fortune and Vanitas in the visual arts.
Author |
: Koenraad Jonckheere |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 474 |
Release |
: 2022-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300267525 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300267525 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis A New History of Western Art by : Koenraad Jonckheere
A radical re-examination of 2,500 years of European art, deconstructing and demystifying its long history from ancient to present How has art evolved from the pursuit of the 'ideal' human form to a black square on a white canvas? Why is a banana duct-taped to a wall worth more on the art market than a beautiful seventeenth-century landscape? By taking art for what it actually is -- a piece of stone or wood, a sheet of paper with some lines drawn on it, a painted canvas -- this lively and accessible account shows how seemingly meaningless objects can be transformed into celebrated works of art. Breaking with conventional notions of artistic genius, Koenraad Jonckheere explores how stories and emotions give meaning to objects, and why changing historical circumstances result in such shifting opinions over time. Tracing its story from ancient times to present, A New History of Western Art reframes the evolution of European art and radically reshapes our understanding of art history. Published in association with Hannibal Books
Author |
: Rudy Jos Beerens |
Publisher |
: Leuven University Press |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2024-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789462704282 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9462704287 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Painters and Communities in Seventeenth-Century Brussels by : Rudy Jos Beerens
In seventeenth-century Brussels, the careers of painters were shaped not only by their artistic talents but also by the communities to which they belonged. This book explores the intricate relationship between the social structures and artistic production of the 353 painters who became masters in the Brussels Guild of Painters, Goldbeaters, and Stained-Glass Makers between 1599 and 1706. This innovative study combines quantitative digital analysis with detailed qualitative case studies, offering a novel approach to the social history of art. By examining the various communities in which these artists operated, this book provides new insights into how early modern painters — both in Brussels and beyond — created their art, earned a living, and navigated the complexities of urban life. Painters and Communities in Seventeenth-Century Brussels also presents the first overview of the Brussels Baroque, with extensive biographical lists of the city’s master painters.
Author |
: Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2021-05-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004460201 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004460209 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anonymous Art at Auction by : Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker
In Anonymous Art at Auction, Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker takes the opposing view of the superstar economy by examining contemporary sales of Early Flemish paintings with unknown authorship and the effects of various substitutes for real names on price formation.
Author |
: Ovanes Akopyan |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2021-04-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004459960 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004459960 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650 by : Ovanes Akopyan
This collection of essays presents new insights into what shaped and constituted the Renaissance and early modern views of fate and fortune. It argues that these ideas were emblematic of a more fundamental argument about the self, society, and the universe and shows that their influence was more widespread, both geographically and thematically, than hitherto assumed.
Author |
: Bianca M. Lindorfer |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2024-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781040172346 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1040172342 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cosmopolitan Baroque by : Bianca M. Lindorfer
This book examines the cultural relations between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg monarchies in the seventeenth century and explores the central role of transnational aristocratic networks in cultural transfer processes between Spain and Central Europe. It tells the story of Central European aristocrats who embraced new foreign fashions, commodities, and practices to demonstrate their wealth and superior social position, thereby contributing significantly to the emergence of a cosmopolitan aristocratic Baroque culture. It shows that a new type of aristocrat emerged during this period: the cultured and educated aristocratic connoisseur, who knew how to use cultural imports and practices for his own strategic ends. However, the book also shows that not everyone was equally enthusiastic about the growing cultural imports, but that the boundaries between acceptance and rejection were often fluid. Covering a wide range of topics that span from early modern luxury consumption and food culture to collecting painting and the emergence of early modern aristocratic libraries, the book will appeal to a broad academic audience, including social and cultural historians, art historians, and cultural anthropologists alike. With its transnational scope, the book will be relevant to scholars interested in exploring the cosmopolitan nature of the early modern aristocracy also beyond the Austrian Habsburg monarchy.
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 535 |
Release |
: 2023-05-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004541061 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004541063 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York by :
This is the first thorough investigation of the Brummer brothers’ remarkable career as dealers in antiques, curiosities and modernism in Paris and New York over six decades (1906-1964). A dozen specialists aggregate their expertise to explore extant dealer records and museum archives, parse the wide-ranging Brummer stock, and assess how objects were sourced, marketed, labelled, restored, and displayed. The research provides insights into emerging collecting fields as they crystallised, at the crossroads between market and museum. It questions the trope of the tastemaker; the translocation of material culture, and the dealers’ prolific relationships with illustrious collectors, curators, scholars, artists, and fellow dealers.
Author |
: Matthias Heiduk |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 1039 |
Release |
: 2020-11-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110499773 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110499770 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prognostication in the Medieval World by : Matthias Heiduk
Two opposing views of the future in the Middle Ages dominate recent historical scholarship. According to one opinion, medieval societies were expecting the near end of the world and therefore had no concept of the future. According to the other opinion, the expectation of the near end created a drive to change the world for the better and thus for innovation. Close inspection of the history of prognostication reveals the continuous attempts and multifold methods to recognize and interpret God’s will, the prodigies of nature, and the patterns of time. That proves, on the one hand, the constant human uncertainty facing the contingencies of the future. On the other hand, it demonstrates the firm believe during the Middle Ages in a future which could be shaped and even manipulated. The handbook provides the first overview of current historical research on medieval prognostication. It considers the entangled influences and transmissions between Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and non-monotheistic societies during the period from a wide range of perspectives. An international team of 63 renowned authors from about a dozen different academic disciplines contributed to this comprehensive overview.
Author |
: Arthur der Weduwen |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 433 |
Release |
: 2023-12-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198926627 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198926626 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age by : Arthur der Weduwen
State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age describes the political communication practices of the authorities in the early modern Netherlands. Der Weduwen provides an in-depth study of early modern state communication: the manner in which government sought to inform its citizens, publicise its laws, and engage publicly in quarrels with political opponents. These communication strategies, including proclamations, the use of town criers, and the printing and affixing of hundreds of thousands of edicts, underpinned the political stability of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Based on systematic research in thirty-two Dutch archives, this book demonstrates for the first time how the wealthiest, most literate, and most politically participatory state of early modern Europe was shaped by the communication of political information. It makes a decisive case for the importance of communication to the relationship between rulers and ruled, and the extent to which early modern authorities relied on the active consent of their subjects to legitimise their government.
Author |
: Charles van Onselen |
Publisher |
: Jonathan Ball Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2023-03-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781776192496 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1776192494 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Three Wise Monkeys by : Charles van Onselen
The Three Wise Monkeys trilogy culminates with a forensic examination of South Africa's long struggle to suppress gambling, and especially lotteries. The opposition of the Calvinist churches – both Afrikaans and English-speaking – had its counterpart in the eager embrace of games of chance by the white working class on the Witwatersrand. Focusing on the career of Rufe Naylor, an Australian bookmaker, horse dealer and entrepreneur who, with the help of a defrocked Portuguese Catholic priest, ran the Lourenço Marques Lottery, The Quest for Wealth without Work shows how the efforts of church and state to control the leisure time and morals of the working class intersected with the need to ensure the flow of cheap mine labour from Mozambique. Ultimately, in the suppression of the Lourenço Marques Lottery – and in campaigns against pinball machines, dog racing and other 'social evils' – can be seen the emerging outlines of the apartheid police state.