TY - BOOK ID - 30933143 TI - The value of taste : auction prices and the evolution of taste in Dutch and Flemish Golden Age painting PY - 2017 SN - 9781909400481 1909400483 PB - London Harvey Miller Publishers DB - UniCat KW - taste [aesthetics] KW - Art auctions KW - Painting, Flemish KW - Painting, Netherlandish KW - Data processing KW - Prices KW - golden age [mythology] KW - Painting KW - History KW - prices KW - art market KW - auctions KW - Netherlands KW - Flanders KW - 7.078 KW - 351.852 KW - 351.852 Overheidstaken, administratieve maatregelen i.v.m. musea, verzamelingen, bibliotheken, archieven KW - Overheidstaken, administratieve maatregelen i.v.m. musea, verzamelingen, bibliotheken, archieven KW - 7.078 Kunstbescherming. Kunstbevordering KW - Kunstbescherming. Kunstbevordering KW - economische geschiedenis KW - genres KW - kunsthandel KW - veilingen KW - Bakhuizen, Ludolf KW - Berchem, Nicolaes Pietersz KW - Brouwer, Adriaen KW - Brueghel, Jan (de Oude) KW - Brueghel, Pieter (de Jonge) KW - Craesbeeck, Joos van KW - De Lairesse, Gérard KW - Dou, Gerrit KW - Jordaens, Jacob KW - Laer, Pieter van KW - Miel, Jan KW - Mieris, Frans van (de Oude) KW - Ostade, Adriaen van KW - Palamedesz., Palamedes (I) KW - Rembrandt van Rijn KW - Rijckaert, David (III) KW - Rubens, Peter Paul KW - Snayers, Peter KW - Teniers, David (II) KW - Van Dyck, Anthony KW - Van Poelenburgh, Cornelis KW - Wouwerman, Philips KW - 17de eeuw KW - Noordelijke Nederlanden KW - Vlaanderen KW - Zuidelijke Nederlanden KW - van Dyck, Anthony KW - van Poelenburgh, Cornelis KW - de Lairesse, Gérard KW - van Craesbeeck, Joos KW - van Ostade, Adriaen KW - van Mieris, Frans (de Oude) KW - Rembrandt KW - Brueghel, Jan I KW - Brueghel, Pieter II KW - kunsthandel. KW - economische geschiedenis. KW - veilingen. KW - genres. KW - Rubens, Peter Paul. KW - Rembrandt. KW - van Dyck, Anthony. KW - Teniers, David II. KW - Bakhuizen, Ludolf. KW - Berchem, Nicolaes. KW - Wouwerman, Philips. KW - van Poelenburgh, Cornelis. KW - Brueghel, Jan I. KW - Jordaens, Jacob. KW - de Lairesse, Gérard. KW - Brouwer, Adriaen. KW - van Craesbeeck, Joos. KW - Brueghel, Pieter II. KW - Rijckaert, David (III). KW - van Ostade, Adriaen. KW - Dou, Gerrit. KW - van Mieris, Frans (de Oude). KW - Snayers, Peter. KW - Palamedesz., Palamedes (I). KW - Laer, Pieter van. KW - Miel, Jan. KW - 17de eeuw. KW - Noordelijke Nederlanden. KW - Vlaanderen. KW - Zuidelijke Nederlanden. KW - auctions [sales events] KW - Hollandse school KW - receptiegeschiedenis KW - Vlaamse school KW - schilderkunst, Nederlanden KW - Teniers, David II KW - Berchem, Nicolaes KW - Dou, Gerard UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30933143 AB - Taste is a well known but largely underestimated phenomenon. Yet it is one of the factors that has shaped our knowledge and view of art. Why is Rembrandt van Rijn today considered to be one of the greatest painters in European art while Gerard de Lairesse, Rembrandt's younger contemporary and one of the best-selling painters of his day, is now forgotten? This book is a systematic and quantitative study of taste. More specifically it focuses on the painters of the seventeenth-century Low Countries and follows the changes in consumer evaluation of them from the seventeenth century up to 2008. Proceeding from the same starting point as Gerald Reitlinger in his monumental The Economics of Taste, it uses the prices paintings have fetched at auction as a basis for tracing trends in the taste of the art-buying public. Whereas Reitlinger's approach was rather intuitive, this study develops a sound methodological basis for researching taste and auction prices. It is not only quantitative methods and properties of auction prices that require a specific approach: in historical research quantitative data and analyses are only reliable when they can also be tested against qualitative or historical sources. Based on a statistical analysis, various "universal" painters, such as Rubens and Rembrandt, are defined. In addition, however, specific genres such as landscape, portrait, history painting, and so on are analysed. In the case of eighty-three painters there is sufficient information to allow the profiling of individual price trends. But other quantitative data drawn from the examination of collections or catalogues raisonnés prove an additional source of information when compared with auction prices. This book shows what big data and statistics can mean to our understanding of art. ER -