Art merchant

An art merchant is a person who buys and sells works of art. In Renaissance Italy, art merchants were the primary suppliers of two-dimensional drawn media, such as paintings and maps. With his apprentices, an art merchant could reproduce and sell decent copies of most works of art and drawings. They were still a raw trade, much like blacksmiths.Assassin's Creed IIAssassin's Creed: Brotherhood
==Paintings==
Each painting increased Monteriggioni's value, with the higher the price, the higher the added value. Paintings sold by art merchants changed depending on what region they were in. Once purchased, they could be viewed at the Villa Auditore's second floor painting gallery while also providing some background information on the painting itself and its artist. Art merchants were not as common as blacksmiths or doctors, but there was at least one situated in each city.
Location 	Painting 	Cost 	Artist
Florence 	 	320ƒ 	
Florence 	 	280ƒ 	Andrea del Verrocchio
Florence 	 	2,950ƒ 	Sandro Botticelli
Florence 	 	3,050ƒ 	Sandro Botticelli
Florence 	Annunciation 	429ƒ 	Leonardo da Vinci
Florence 	Saint John Baptiste 	1,608ƒ 	Leonardo da Vinci
Florence 	Portrait of a Musician 	20ƒ 	Leonardo da Vinci
Florence 	 	1,492ƒ 	Pietro Perugino
Venice 	St Jerome in the Wilderness	53ƒ 	Leonardo da Vinci
Venice 	Adoration of the Magi 	1,290ƒ 	Leonardo da Vinci
Venice 	 	163ƒ 	Antonello da Messina
Venice 	 	4,300ƒ 	
Venice 	 	6,295ƒ 	Titian
San Gimignano	 	7,220ƒ 	Titian
San Gimignano	 	9,175ƒ 	
San Gimignano	Venus and the Mirror 	1,035ƒ 	
San Gimignano	 	125ƒ 	
San Gimignano	 	525ƒ 	Leonardo da Vinci
San Gimignano	 	325ƒ 	
Forlì 	 	14,800ƒ	Sandro Botticelli
Forlì 	 	6,969ƒ 	
Forlì 	 	32ƒ 	Raphael
Forlì 	 	200ƒ 	Leonardo da Vinci
Forlì 	 	500ƒ 	Raphael
Forlì 	Eve 	800ƒ 	Albrecht Dürer
Monteriggioni	Lady with an Ermine 	85ƒ 	Leonardo da Vinci
Monteriggioni	 	3,290ƒ 	
Monteriggioni	 	581ƒ 	
Monteriggioni	 	2,850ƒ 	and
Monteriggioni	and Federico 	1,238ƒ 	Piero della Francesca
==Treasure maps==
Treasure maps marked the location of treasure chests located all over Italy. Like paintings, treasure maps differed depending on what location they were bought at. Local art merchants in Florence, Tuscany, Romagna, and Venice possessed a map for each district that they covered. There was also another treasure map for Monteriggioni. Treasure maps for each district were unlocked after Ezio had visited the district at least once.
City (District) 	Cost
Florence (Santa Maria Novella)	160ƒ
Florence (San Marco) 	150ƒ
Florence (San Giovanni) 	395ƒ
Apennine Mountains 	150ƒ
Monteriggioni 	285ƒ
Tuscany (San Gimignano) 	245ƒ
Tuscany (Countryside) 	175ƒ
Romagna (Forlì) 	260ƒ
Romagna (Countryside) 	235ƒ
Venice (San Marco) 	500ƒ
Venice (Dorsoduro) 	495ƒ
Venice (San Polo) 	550ƒ
Venice (Cannaregio) 	995ƒ
Venice (Castello) 	485ƒ
==Trivia==
*In Assassin's Creed II, 8 out of the 30 paintings that were available for purchase were painted by Leonardo da Vinci.
*In Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, all of the paintings that were available for purchase were painted by Raphael.
*Art merchants shops featured paintings that could not be purchased; most notably, the portrait of Giuliano de' Medici by Sandro Botticelli was seen hanging prominently.
*There was a typing mistake in the description of the painting "Resurrection of Christ."
*Several paintings such as Albrecht Dürer's or Raphael's  were painted several years after the events of each game, so it would have been impossible for Ezio to buy the artwork or the replicas earlier in the games.
*During modern times, the building previously occupied by Monteriggioni's art merchant had been converted to an information kiosk.
*In Assassin's Creed: Revelations, art merchants were replaced by book shops.
==Gallery==
AC2 Monteriggioni Art Merchant.png|Monteriggioni's art merchant
ACB Art Merchant Menu.png|An art merchant's inventory
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed II 
*Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
==References==
uk:Торговці картинами
Category:Occupations
Category:Businesses