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Early Modern Merchants as Collectors (Paperback)
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Early Modern Merchants as Collectors (Paperback)
Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity
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Early Modern Merchants as Collectors 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. The essays included in this volume consider merchants not
only as important collectors in their own right, as opposed to
merely agents or middlemen, but also as innovators who determined
taste. Through bringing together contributions on merchant
collectors across a wide geographical spread, including England,
The Netherlands, Venice, Moghul India, China and Japan, among other
locations, it aims to challenge the often Eurocentric view of the
study of collecting that has shaped the discipline to date. The
early modern period and its Wunderkammern formed the subject of
some of the earliest, foundational texts on collecting. This volume
expands on such previous scholarship, taking a more in-depth look
at a particular class of collectors and investigating their
motivations, social and economic circumstances, and the
intellectual ideas and purposes that informed their collecting. It
offers a fresh approach to the understanding of the role of
merchants in early modern societies and will serve as a resource to
historians of art, science, museums, culture and economics, as well
as to scholars of transcultural studies.
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