Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture in the Low Countries, 15th-17th Centuries
Language: en
Pages: 389
Authors: Sophie Raux
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-19 - Publisher: BRILL

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Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture examines lotteries as devices for distributing images and art objects, and constructing their value in the former Low
Painters and Communities in Seventeenth-Century Brussels
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Rudy Jos Beerens
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-09-30 - Publisher: Leuven University Press

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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
Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Ovanes Akopyan
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-26 - Publisher: BRILL

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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 thes
A New History of Western Art
Language: en
Pages: 474
Authors: Koenraad Jonckheere
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-15 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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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 p
Anonymous Art at Auction
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-25 - Publisher: BRILL

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In Anonymous Art at Auction, Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker takes the opposing view of the superstar economy by examining contemporary sales of Early Flemish painti