Early modern merchants as collectors
| Titel: | Early modern merchants as collectors : [conference, Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, 15-16 June 2012] / / edited by Christina M. Anderson. |
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| Veröffentlicht: | London; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017 |
| Umfang: | 1 vol. (x-265 Seiten-[8] Seiten de pl.) : Illustrationen, Karten ; 25 cm. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Visual culture in early modernity ; 52 |
| ISBN: | 9781472469823 ; 1472469828 ; 9780367334109 ; 0367334100 |
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- List of figures and tables
- p. vii
- Introduction: The Early Modern Merchant as a Collector
- p. 1
- Part I
- Beginning to collect
- p. 17
- 1
- The commissioning and collecting of portraits by merchants in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England
- p. 19
- 2
- Portraits, pearls and things 'wch are very straunge to owres': the lost collections of the Thorne/Withypoll Trading Syndicate, 1520-1550
- p. 30
- Part II
- Behaving as collectors
- p. 47
- 3
- Tea and commerce: Japanese merchants in the sixteenth-century as collectors and creators
- p. 49
- 4
- Gardening in Goa: Eilippo Sassetti's experiences with Indian medicine and plants
- p. 63
- Part III
- The role of provenance
- p. 81
- 5
- Imperial treasures in the hands of a Ming merchant: Xiang Yuanbian's collection
- p. 83
- 6
- Considered judgement and prestigious provenance: Bartolomeo della Nave's acquisitions from the collection of Pictro Bembo
- p. 100
- Part IV
- Collecting for a specific purpose
- p. 115
- 7
- Boudewijn's books: a Dutch golden age merchant and his library
- p. 117
- 8
- Complementary activities: Marco Boschini, Paolo del Sera and Niccolò Renieri as merchants, collectors and painters in Seicento Venice
- p. 129
- Part V
- Dealers as collectors
- p. 141
- 9
- Between collection and stock: the ambiguous role of merchants and artisans in the sixteenth-century Roman antiquities market
- p. 143
- 10
- Merchants as collectors and art dealers: the cases of Daniel Nijs and Carlo Hellemans, Flemish merchants in Venice
- p. 156
- Part VI
- Later generations of merchant collectors
- p. 167
- 11
- Brothers in collecting: Thomas and Jacob Rehdiger - two sixteenth-century Silesian art collectors and bibliophiles
- p. 169
- 12
- Gaspard de Monconys, Provost-Marshal of the merchants and collector in seventeenth-century Lyon
- p. 184
- Part VII
- Merchants and collecting in the Islamicate world
- p. 197
- 13
- 'Ali Akbar's red horse: collecting Arab horses in the early modern culture of Empire
- p. 199
- Bibliography
- p. 220
- Contributors
- p. 249
- Index
- p. 253
