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This book encourages the rethinking of collecting not as an elite, often aristocratic pursuit, but rather as a vital activity that has engaged many different groups within society.
List of contents
Introduction: The Early Modern Merchant as a Collector
Christina M. Anderson
Part I: Beginning to Collect
1. The Commissioning and Collecting of Portraits by Merchants in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century England
Tarnya Cooper
2. Portraits, Pearls and Things ‘wch are very straunge to owres’: The Lost Collections of the Thorne/Withypoll Trading Syndicate, 1520 – 1550
Heather Dalton
Part II: Behaving as Collectors
3. Tea and Commerce: Japanese Merchants in the Sixteenth Century as Collectors and Creators
Louise A. Cort
4. Gardening in Goa – Filippo Sassetti’s Experiences with Indian Medicine and Plants
Barbara Karl
Part III: The Role of Provenance
5. Imperial Treasures in the Hands of a Ming Merchant: Xiang Yuanbian’s Collection
Amy C. Riggs
6. Considered Judgement and Prestigious Provenance: Bartolomeo della Nave’s Acquisitions from the Collection of Pietro Bembo
Susan Nalezyty
Part IV: Collecting for a Specific Purpose
7. Boudewijn’s Books: A Dutch Golden Age Merchant and his Library
Henk Looijesteijn
8. Complementary Activities: Boschini, del Sera and Renieri as Merchants, Collectors and Painters in Seicento Venice
Taryn Marie Zarrillo
Part V: Dealers as Collectors
9. Between Collection and Stock. The Ambiguous Role of Merchants and Artisans in the Sixteenth-Century Roman Antiquities Market
Barbara Furlotti
10. Merchants as Collectors and Art Dealers: The Cases of Daniel Nijs and Carlo Hellemans, Flemish Merchants in Venice
Christina M. Anderson
Part VI: Later Generations of Merchant Collectors
11. Brothers in Collecting: Thomas and Jacob Rehdiger – Two Sixteenth-Century Silesian Art Collectors and Bibliophiles
Aleksandra Lipińska
12. Gaspard de Monconys, Provost-Marshal of the Merchants and Collector in Seventeenth-Century Lyon
Anne-Lise Tropato
Part VII: Merchants and Collecting in the Islamicate World
13. ‘Ali Akbar’s Red Horse – Collecting Arab Horses in the Early Modern Culture of Empire
Elizabeth Lambourn
Summary
This book encourages the rethinking of collecting not as an elite, often aristocratic pursuit, but rather as a vital activity that has engaged many different groups within society.
