Mediators of trade and taste. Dealing with demand and quality uncertainty in the international art markets of the seventeenth century

Rasterhoff, Claartje; Vermeylen, Filip

doi:10.18352/dze.10123

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“…Instead, the pattern discussed here points at a high degree of market integration, something that is also evidenced by the lively trade in Antwerp (and Mechelen) paintings in the Dutch Republic and the frequent travels by Antwerp painters and art dealers to the north (cf. Duverger 1968;Sluijter 2009;Rasterhoff and Vermeylen 2015).…”

Section: Counting Painters In Antwerp and Amsterdammentioning

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The Painting Industries of Antwerp and Amsterdam, 1500−1700: A Data Perspective

Nijboer

Brouwer

Bok

2019

Arts

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This study presents a data driven comparative analysis of the painting industries in sixteenth and seventeenth century Antwerp and Amsterdam. The popular view of the development of these two artistic centers still holds that Antwerp flourished in the sixteenth century and was succeeded by Amsterdam after the former’s recapturing by the Spanish in 1585. However, a demographic analysis of the number of painters active in Antwerp and Amsterdam shows that Antwerp recovered relatively quickly after 1585 and that it remained the leading artistic center in the Low Countries, only to be surpassed by Amsterdam in the 1650’s. An analysis of migration patterns and social networks shows that painters in Antwerp formed a more cohesive group than painters in Amsterdam. As a result, the two cities responded quite differently to internal and external market shocks. Data for this study are taken from ECARTICO, a database and a linked data web resource containing structured biographical data on over 9100 painters working in the Low Countries until circa 1725.

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Section: Counting Painters In Antwerp and Amsterdammentioning

confidence: 99%