The papers in this volume were presented at the CATS international technical art history conference Trading Paintings and Painters’ Materials 1550–1800 which explored international markets for paintings and artists’ materials in the early modern period and their implications for artistic production. Questions central to these papers include: did preferences exist for artists’ materials and paintings from specific geographical areas in particular places and if so why? How did the import of painting materials and artworks impact local production, connoisseurship and art theory? In what conditions were these artists’ materials and finished artworks produced and traded in early modern Europe and beyond?
The lavishly illustrated contributions in this volume deal with the above questions and shed light on different trades, products, countries and timeframes by combining a large variety of methods and sources, including visual analyses, written sources, pigment analyses and archaeological excavations.
This fourth CATS Proceedings will be of interest to scholars and students, museum professionals, curators, conservators, art historians and conservation scientists.
*A freely downloadable pdf version of this book is available on the CATS website
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Foreword
Painting in a wider world: developments in the trade in painters’ materials
Jo Kirby
Flemish dealers and a thriving transatlantic art trade during the 17th century
Sandra van Ginhoven
Quantity over quality? Dutch and Flemish paintings in a Danish private collection
Angela Jager
The trade in painters’ supplies in 17th-century Denmark
Anne Haack Christensen
Jens Juel and the business of portrait painting
Tine Louise Slotsgaard
Smudges, sponges and 17th-century Dutch painting
Rozemarijn Landsman
Found in translation: exploring Dutch influence on 18th-century British landscape painting
Kari S. Rayner
London, 1600–1800: trading artists’ materials with Europe and worldwide
Jacob Simon
The market of art materials in Quebec at the end of the 18th century: a study of Canadian artist François Baillairgé’s Journal (1784-1800)
Pierre-Olivier Ouellet
Archaeological evidence of Venetian trade in colouring materials: the case of the Gnalić shipwreck
Katarina Batur and Irena Radić Rossi
Efficienza e unione: practical considerations for using coloured grounds in 16th-century Italy
Moorea Hall-Aquitania
‘Che altri che lui non lo fa’: making ultramarine blue in grand ducal Florence
Sheila Barker
An unusual pigment in 16th-century Ferrara: ‘Egyptian blue’ in Garofalo's Adoration of the Magi and Ortolano's St Margaret
Giulia Sara de Vivo, Annelies van Loon, Petria Noble, Airi Hirayama, Yoshinari Abe, Izumi Nakai and Duncan Bull
The polychrome wooden sculptures of the Jesuit reductions in Paraguay: a technical study
Julia Brandt, Corinna Gramatke and Isabel Wagner
Comments of some of the authors after receiving their copy:
...Another volume which is of great credit to Archetype Publications. (12.7.19)
...It is a wonderful resource and I am proud to have been a part of it. (12.7.19)
...I wanted to thank you for the publication of this beautiful book. It is wonderful to read the papers coming from the conferences presented last June. I feel very blessed to be part of the authors and to be published by Archetype Publications. (18.7.19)
