Art Markets in Europe, 1400-1800

by Michael North, David Ormrod, Michael North

Book Overview

The reinvention of art-history during the 1980s has provided a serious challenge to the earlier formalist and connoisseurial approaches to the discipline, in ways which can only help economic and social historians in the current drive to study past societies in terms of what they consumed, produced, perceived and imagined. This group of essays focuses on three main issues: the demand for art, including the range of art objects purchased by various...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138380075
• ISBN13: 9781138380073
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages