Title: Early modern merchants as collectors /
Authors: Early Modern Merchants as Collectors (Conference); Anderson, Christina M.
Date: 2017
Publisher: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,
Physical description: x, 265 pages, 8 numbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: A
Abstract: Early Modern Merchants as Collectors' encourages the rethinking of collecting not as an elite, often aristocratic pursuit, but rather as a vital activity that has engaged many different groups within society. The essays included in this volume consider merchants not only as important collectors in their own right, as opposed to merely agents or middlemen, but also as innovators who determined taste. Through bringing together contributions on merchant collectors across a wide geographical spread, including England, The Netherlands, Venice, Safavid Iran, China and Japan, among other locations, it aims to challenge the often Eurocentric view of the study of collecting that has shaped the discipline to date. The early modern period and its wunderkammern formed the subject of some of the earliest, foundational texts on collecting. This volume expands on such previous scholarship, taking a more in-depth look at a particular class of collectors and investigating their motivations, social and economic circumstances, and the intellectual ideas and purposes that informed their collecting. It offers a fresh approach to the understanding of the role of merchants in early modern societies and will serve as a resource to historians of art, science, museums, culture and economics, as well as to scholars of transcultural studies. -- Back cover.
Contents: Introduction: The early modern merchant as a collector / Christina M. Anderson -- Beginning to collect -- The commissioning and collecting of portraits by merchants in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England / Tarnya Cooper -- Portraits, pearls and things 'wch are very straunge to owres' : the lost collections of the Thorne/Withypoll Trading Syndicate, 1520-1550 -- Behaving as collectors -- Tea and commerce : Japanese merchants in the sixteenth-century as collectors and creators / Louise A. Cort -- Gardening in Goa : Filippo Sassetti's experiences with Indian medicine and plants / Barbara Karl -- The role of provenance -- Imperial treasures in the hands of a Ming merchant : Xiang Yuanbian's collection / Amy C. Riggs -- Considered judgement and prestigious provenance : Bartolomeo della Nave's acquisitions from the collection of Pietro Bembo / Susan Nalezyty -- Collecting for a specific purpose -- Boudewijn's books : a Dutch golden age merchant and his library / Henk Looijesteijn -- Complementary activities : Marco Boschini, Paolo del Sera and Niccolò Renieri as merchants, collectors and painters in Seicento Venice / Taryn Marie Zarrillo -- Dealers as collectors -- Between collection and stock : the ambiguous role of merchants and artisans in the sixteenth-century Roman antiquities market / Barbara Furlotti -- Merchants as collectors and art dealers : the cases of Daniel Nijs and Carlo Hellemans, Flemish merchants in Venice / Christina M. Anderson -- Later generations of merchant collectors -- Brothers in collecting : Thomas and Jacob Rehdiger - two sixteenth-century Silesian art collectors and bibliophiles / Aleksandra Lipinska -- Gaspard de Monconys, Provost-Marshal of the merchants and collector in seventeenth-century Lyon / Anne-Lise Tropato -- Merchants and collectors in the Islamicate world -- 'Ali Akbar's red horse : collecting Arab horses in the early modern culture of empire / Elizabeth Lambourn.
Notes: "An Ashgate book".
Subject headings (LCSH): Collectors and collecting--History--Congresses.; Merchants as collectors--Congresses.