Luxury in the Low Countries
Subtitle: miscellaneous reflections on Netherlandish material culture, 1500 to the present
By: Rengenier C. Rittersma (ed.).
Publisher: Pharo; Flemish interface for cultural heritage
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Brussels
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9789054877974
Subjects: Gastronomy; Art; Luxury; Congresses; Collectors and collecting; Luxuries
Other titles: Miscellaneous reflections on Netherlandish material culture, 1500 to the present
Notes: Select papers delivered at a conference held in Brussels, Nov. 21-21, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Putting Social Status and Social Aspirations on Display: A Panoramic Study on Manifestations of Luxury in the Low Countries, 1500 to the Present  -- Rengenier C. Rittersma; title: Economies of Quality as a Concept of Research on Luxury  -- Christof Jeggle; title: Precious Nature : Rare Naturalia as Collectors' Items and Gifts in Early Modern Europe  -- Florike Egmond; title: The Use and Misuse of Flowers : Tulipmania and the Concept of Luxury  -- Anne Goldgar; title: Wine as a Luxury at the Dutch Factory in Japan during the Second Half of the 18th Century  -- Joji Nozawa; title: Networkers and Mediators in the 17th-century Antwerp Art World : The Impact of Collectors-Connoisseurs on Artistic Processes of Transmission and Selection  -- Bert Timmermans; title: Pronken as Practice. Material Culture in The Netherlands, 1650-1800  -- Hester Dibbits; title: Wohl dem der's sehen kann! Private Amsterdam Art Collections, 1770-1860  -- Cornelia Fanslau; title: A Daily Display of Luxury? The Dining Table of King Leopold II of Belgium, 1865-1909  -- Danielle De Vooght; title: Marketing Food, Marketing a Necessity? Belgian Food Retailing and the Concept of Luxury in Advertising, 1870-1940  -- Nelleke Teughels; title: The Language of Luxury. Opulence in Gastronomic Discourse, 1960-2000 -- Steven Van Den Berghe.