List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Introduction: "Cultural Selection" and the Origin of
Pictorial Species
2. Antwerp as a Cultural System
3. Town and Country: Painted Worlds of Early Landscapes
4. Money Matters
5. Kitchens and Markets
6. Labor and Leisure: The Peasant
7. Second Bosch: Family Resemblance and the Marketing of Art
8. Descent from Bruegel I: From Flanders to Holland
9. Descent from Bruegel II: Flemish Friends and Family
10. Trickle-Down Genres: The "Curious" Cases of Flowers and
Seascapes
11. Conclusions: Value and Values in the Capital of Capitalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Larry Silver investigates the origins of new pictorial types and their media as a phenomenon of sixteenth-century Antwerp and interprets several pictorial genres as he charts their evolution and their role in the development and marketing of individual artistic styles.
Larry Silver is Farquhar Professor of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books, including Rembrandt and Art in History, and coeditor (with Jeffrey Chipps Smith) of The Essential Durer, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for
2006
"Encompassing a complex and varied set of methodologies, economic
histories of the arts have framed compelling new questions around
the activities of artists, patrons, and dealers as cultural agents
that tend to locate meaning in behavior rather than visuality.
Larry Silver's entrée into the field not only builds on his own
earlier explorations but also significantly reorients the kinds of
questions asked and, by extension, the nature of the answers
derived from the study of markets."—CAA Reviews
"Grandly conceived and richly rewarding. . . . By integrating
current critical methodologies—semiotics, rhetoric, economic
theory—into the examination of sixteenth-century painting in
Antwerp, Silver's study has significant and far-reaching
application and relevance to other disciplines, notably history and
literary criticism."—Choice
"A rich and stimulating essay on the symbiotic relationship between
artistic development and the market at the beginning of the modern
era. . . . A valuable and supremely well informed contribution to
our knowledge of both the formation of taste and the evolution of
pictorial genres in early modern Europe."—Sixteenth Century Journal
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