Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-240) and index.
Includes very brief glass-related descriptions, pp. 20, 49, 69 and 198-199.
Contents:
Manuscript acquisition by the Burgundian court and the market for books in the fifteenth-century Netherlands / Wim Blockmans --
Some aspects of the origins of the art market in fifteenth-century Bruges / Maximiliaan P.J. Martens --
Is art a barometer of wealth? Medieval art exports to the far north of Europe / Jan von Bonsdorff --
Artistic enterprise and Spanish patronage : the art market during the reign of Isabel of Castile (1474-1504) / Mari-Tere Alvarez --
Italian Renaissance courts' demand for the arts : the case of d'Este of Ferrara (1471-1560) / Guido Guerzoni --
Roman art market in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Volker Reinhardt --
Upper German trade in art and curiosities before the Thirty Years War / Renate Pieper --
Pricing the unpriced : how Dutch seventeenth-century painters determined the selling price of their work / Marten Jan Bok --
Dealer-dealer pricing in the mid seventeenth-century Antwerp to Paris art trade / Neil De Marchi, Hans J. Van Miegroet and Matthew E. Raiff --
Probate inventories, public sales and the Parisian art market in the seventeenth century / Antoine Schnapper --
Art auctions in Germany during the eighteenth century / Thomas Ketelsen --
Arenas of connoisseurship : auctioning art in later Stuart England / Brian Cowan --
Origins of the London art market, 1660-1730 / David Ormrod --
Commerce and the commodity : graphic display and selling new consumer goods in eighteenth-century England / Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford --
Intrigue, jewellery and economics : court culture and display in England and France in the 1780s / Marcia Pointon.
