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Zusatztext The broad coverage of this ambitious book reveals compelling cross currents and dialogues across time and contexts. As they define how agents, both individuals and institutions, operate both formally and informally in spurring the circulation and acquisition of art, the essays offer a wide view of the current scholarship and methods related to the art market. Informationen zum Autor Adriana Turpin is Academic Director and Head of Research, Institut d’Etudes Supérieures des Arts, Paris, France. Susan Bracken is Associate Lecturer, Department of History of Art, Birkbeck University of London, UK. Klappentext Art Markets, Agents and Collectors brings together a wide variety of case studies, based on letters and detailed archival research, which nuance the history of the art market and the role of the collector within it. Using diaries, account books and other archival sources, the contributions to this volume show how agents set up networks and acquired works of art, often developing the taste and knowledge of the collectors for whom they were working. They are therefore seen as important actors in the market, having a specific role that separates them from auctioneers, dealers, museum curators or amateurs, while at the same time acknowledging and analyzing the dual positions that many held. Each chronological period is introduced by a contextual essay, written by a leading expert in the field, which sets out the art market in the period concerned and the ways in which agents functioned. This book is an invaluable tool for those needing a broader introduction to the intricate workings of the art market. Vorwort An investigation into the changing role of the agent and how their dealings with collectors impact within the art market c 1550-1945 Zusammenfassung Art Markets, Agents and Collectors brings together a wide variety of case studies, based on letters and detailed archival research, which nuance the history of the art market and the role of the collector within it. Using diaries, account books and other archival sources, the contributions to this volume show how agents set up networks and acquired works of art, often developing the taste and knowledge of the collectors for whom they were working. They are therefore seen as important actors in the market, having a specific role that separates them from auctioneers, dealers, museum curators or amateurs, while at the same time acknowledging and analyzing the dual positions that many held. Each chronological period is introduced by a contextual essay, written by a leading expert in the field, which sets out the art market in the period concerned and the ways in which agents functioned. This book is an invaluable tool for those needing a broader introduction to the intricate workings of the art market. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates List of figuresSeries editor’s introduction Acknowledgements Introduction: Baetens, Susan Bracken and Adriana Turpin Part I: Agents in the market, 1550–1720 I Introduction: Agents in the art market, 1550–1720 Sandra van Ginhoven 1 Hans Albrecht von Sprinzenstein: An Austrian art agent in the service of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol Adriana Concin 2 Marco Boschini and the artists of his time Linda Borean 3 International art dealers, local agents and their clients in seventeenth-century Habsburg Inner Austria Tina Košak 4 James Thornhill as an agent-collector in early-eighteenth-century Paris Tamsin Lee-Woolfe Part II Agents in the long eighteenth century II Introduction: Hidden figures – agents in the long eighteenth century Bénédicte Miyamoto 5 Scottish agents in Rome in the eighteenth century: The case of Peter Grant Maria Celeste Cola 6 ‘An oracle for collectors’: Philipp von Stosch and collecting and dealing in art and antiquities in early-eighteenth-century Rome a...
