Name hunting, visual characteristics, and "new old masters" University of Antwerp
Dries Lyna, Name Hunting, Visual Characteristics, and "New Old Masters": Tracking the Taste for Paintings at Eighteenth-Century Auctions In research on the historical formation of the art canon, market valuations are usually perceived as mere reflections of the constant reexamination of the canon that took place elsewhere, in art theoretical treatises and artists' biographies. Questions on the exact relationship between market forces, individual ...