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Author:   ChristinaM. Anderson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9780367334109

ISBN 10:   0367334100
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   18 April 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Early Modern Merchant as a Collector Christina M. Anderson Part I: Beginning to Collect 1. The Commissioning and Collecting of Portraits by Merchants in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century England Tarnya Cooper 2. Portraits, Pearls and Things ‘wch are very straunge to owres’: The Lost Collections of the Thorne/Withypoll Trading Syndicate, 1520 – 1550 Heather Dalton Part II: Behaving as Collectors 3. Tea and Commerce: Japanese Merchants in the Sixteenth Century as Collectors and Creators Louise A. Cort 4. Gardening in Goa – Filippo Sassetti’s Experiences with Indian Medicine and Plants Barbara Karl Part III: The Role of Provenance 5. Imperial Treasures in the Hands of a Ming Merchant: Xiang Yuanbian’s Collection Amy C. Riggs 6. Considered Judgement and Prestigious Provenance: Bartolomeo della Nave’s Acquisitions from the Collection of Pietro Bembo Susan Nalezyty Part IV: Collecting for a Specific Purpose 7. Boudewijn’s Books: A Dutch Golden Age Merchant and his Library Henk Looijesteijn 8. Complementary Activities: Boschini, del Sera and Renieri as Merchants, Collectors and Painters in Seicento Venice Taryn Marie Zarrillo Part V: Dealers as Collectors 9. Between Collection and Stock. The Ambiguous Role of Merchants and Artisans in the Sixteenth-Century Roman Antiquities Market Barbara Furlotti 10. Merchants as Collectors and Art Dealers: The Cases of Daniel Nijs and Carlo Hellemans, Flemish Merchants in Venice Christina M. Anderson Part VI: Later Generations of Merchant Collectors 11. Brothers in Collecting: Thomas and Jacob Rehdiger – Two Sixteenth-Century Silesian Art Collectors and Bibliophiles Aleksandra Lipińska 12. Gaspard de Monconys, Provost-Marshal of the Merchants and Collector in Seventeenth-Century Lyon Anne-Lise Tropato Part VII: Merchants and Collecting in the Islamicate World 13. ‘Ali Akbar’s Red Horse – Collecting Arab Horses in the Early Modern Culture of Empire Elizabeth Lambourn

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The ... essays were selected in order to produce a broad polyfocal perspective that includes a variety of geographical (also non-western) milieus, motivations, [and] social and economic circumstances ... The questions raised ... address a wide range of collecting categories ... [providing] a wealth of refreshing perspectives on the topic. In particular, through focusing on merchants as collectors ... [the volume explores] an anthropological dimension of the practice of collecting: When is a collection a collection? ... What about the collection as a warehouse? The answers to [these questions] can be as diverse as the case studies here, like the reading of Early Modern Merchants as Collectors teaches ... The questions themselves will not become obsolete. --Michael Wenzel, Fruhneuzeit-Info

"""The … essays were selected in order to produce a broad polyfocal perspective that includes a variety of geographical (also non-western) milieus, motivations, [and] social and economic circumstances … The questions raised … address a wide range of collecting categories … [providing] a wealth of refreshing perspectives on the topic. In particular, through focusing on ""merchants as collectors"" … [the volume explores] an anthropological dimension of the practice of collecting: When is a collection a collection? … What about the collection as a warehouse? The answers to [these questions] can be as diverse as the case studies here, like the reading of Early Modern Merchants as Collectors teaches … The questions themselves will not become obsolete."" --Michael Wenzel, Frühneuzeit-Info ""The … essays were selected in order to produce a broad polyfocal perspective that includes a variety of geographical (also non-western) milieus, motivations, [and] social and economic circumstances … The questions raised … address a wide range of collecting categories … [providing] a wealth of refreshing perspectives on the topic. In particular, through focusing on ""merchants as collectors"" … [the volume explores] an anthropological dimension of the practice of collecting: When is a collection a collection? … What about the collection as a warehouse? The answers to [these questions] can be as diverse as the case studies here, like the reading of Early Modern Merchants as Collectors teaches … The questions themselves will not become obsolete."" --Michael Wenzel, Frühneuzeit-Info"

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Christina M. Anderson is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Faculty, and Research Fellow in the Study of Collecting at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK.

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