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Author Raux, Sophie, author.

Title Lotteries, art markets, and visual culture in the Low Countries, 15th-17th centuries / by Sophie Raux.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Studies in the history of collecting & art markets ; Volume 4
Studies in the history of collecting & art markets ; Volume 4.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Origin and Typology of Lotteries in the Low Countries; 1 Historical and Historiographical Context; 1.1 An Invention Linked to a Boom in Risk and Speculation; 1.2 From the Burgundian Netherlands to Italy: Rapid Expansion Across Urban Europe; 1.3 Towards More Material Prizes; 2 Lottery Typology in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands; 2.1 Public-Utility Lotteries Held by Civil or Religious Institutions; 2.2 State Lotteries for the Common Good.
2.3 Lotteries of Private Entrepreneurs for Commercial Ends3 The Upsurge in Commercial Lotteries; 3.1 "Secret" Closed-Circle Lotteries: The Abuses of the 1520s; 3.2 Occasional Lotteries by Specialist Dealers: Tapestries, Paintings, Alabasters, Jewelry; 3.3 International Traders and Lottery Entrepreneurs; Chapter 2 The Machinery of Success: Expert Valuation-Exhibition-Draw; 1 Building Trust; 1.1 A Transparent Procedure; 1.2 Expert Valuation Procedures; 2 Make Known, Make Seen: The Visual Means of Mediatization; 2.1 Public Exhibitions; 2.2 A Fanfare of Visual Communication.
3 Theatralization: The Public Draw as Urban SpectacleChapter 3 Visualizing the Material and Moral Stakes of Institutional Lotteries; 1 Illustrated Posters: A Feature of the Visual Culture of the Low Countries; 1.1 From brieven van de lotinghe to loterijkaarten; 1.2 Of German Origin?; 1.3 Expressing the Hierarchy of Object Values Through Image and Text; 2 Exploiting the Image's Power of Persuasion; 2.1 The "Portrait of the Prizes"; 2.2 Interaction between Iconicity and Textuality; 2.3 Combining the Appeal to Good Intentions with the Lure of Profit.
3 Theatralization and Dramatization: The Human Impact3.1 Isaac Claesz. van Swanenburgh's Poster for the Leiden Lottery (1596); 3.2 The Posters of Claes Jansz. Visscher: Playing with Reduplication; 3.3 Uses of the Poster as Image and the Poster as Object; Chapter 4 Lottery Posters and Booklets: The Role of Print in Structuring the Art Worlds; 1 Lottery Posters in the United Provinces; 1.1 Picturing Diversity, Novelty, and Luxury: The Lotteries of Hulst (1659-1660) and Terschelling (1666); 1.2 The Victory of the Object: The Durgerdam Lottery Poster (1688).
1.3 Demise of the Image: The Grootebroek Lottery Poster (1694-1695)1.4 Commercial Lottery Posters: The Importance of the Painter's Name; 2 Booklets and Catalogues: New Tools of Mediation and Encouragement to Gamble; 2.1 Arent van Gorp's Lottery in IJsselstein (Utrecht) in 1651; 2.2 Henry van Soest's Lottery at the Antwerp Stock Exchange (1695); 2.3 The Primacy of Market Value and Novelty; 3 A New Image of the Art Trade and Material Pleasure; 3.1 A Model for Gersaint?; 3.2 From Lottery Catalogue to Sales Catalogue; 3.3 Lotteries and Material Culture.
Summary The book examines the lotteries as devices for distributing images and art objects, and constructing their value in the former Low Countries. Alongside the fairs and before specialist auction sales were established, they were an atypical but popular and large-scale form of the art trade. As part of a growing entrepreneurial sensibility based on speculation and a sense of risk, they lay behind many innovations. This study looks at their actors, networks and strategies. It considers the objects at stake, their value, and the forms of visual communication intended to boost an appetite for ownership. Ultimately, it contemplates how the lottery culture impacted notions of Fortune and Vanitas in the visual arts.
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Subject Art -- Economic aspects -- Benelux countries -- History.
Art -- Economic aspects.
Benelux countries.
History.
Lotteries -- Benelux countries -- History.
Lotteries.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Benelux countries -- History.
Art -- Collectors and collecting.
Art and society -- Benelux countries -- History.
Art and society.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Raux, Sophie. Lotteries, art markets, and visual culture in the Low Countries, 15th-17th centuries. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004353213 (DLC) 2017052532
ISBN 9789004358812 (electronic book)
9004358811 (electronic book)
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