Author: Göttler, Christine, Bart Ramakers & Joanna Woodall. (eds).
Title: Trading values in early modern Antwerp.
Description: Leiden & Boston, E.J. Brill, 2014. 399 pp. Num. ills (chiefly col.). Orig. hardcover (silver lettered black cloth), d./j. Large 8vo. (Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, Vol. 64). [ISBN: 978-90-04-27215-6]. - A neat copy. In his Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi of 1567, the Italian merchant and humanist Ludovico Guicciardini described Antwerp as the warehouse of the world where all kinds of commodities were traded and displayed. Early modern Antwerp’s pre-eminent position depended upon links between material trade and exchange and the circulation of information, knowledge and beliefs. In this multidisciplinary volume of the NKJ, articles by leading scholars in the fields of art and material culture, literature and history explore ways in which value was propagated in the city from its so-called golden age, before the Revolt of the Netherlands, far into the seventeenth century. - Text in English. - Publisher's retail price: € 152.60

Keywords: Economy Belgium Trade History Belgium Dutch Art Economie België Handel Geschiedenis België Nederlandse kunst