Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c. 1400-1750

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-94-6372-607-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm

Reihe: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c. 1400-1750 focuses on coins as material artefacts and agents of meaning in early modern arts. The precious metals, double-sided form, and emblematic character of coins had deep resonance in European culture and cultural encounters. Coins embodied Europe’s power and the labour, increasingly located in colonised regions, of extracting gold and silver. Their efficacy depended on faith in their inherent value and the authority perceived to be imprinted into them, guaranteed through the institution of the Mint. Yet they could speak eloquently of illusion, debasement and counterfeiting.

A substantial introduction precedes essays by interdisciplinary scholars on five themes: power and authority in the Mint; currency and the anxieties of global trade; coins and persons; coins in and out of circulation; credit and risk. An Afterword on a contemporary artist demonstrates the continuing expressive and symbolic power of numismatic forms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seaman, Natasha

Woodall, Joanna

Weitere Mitwirkende

Felten, Sebastian

Stewart, Jessica

Ho, Angela

Anderson, Carrie

Choi, Rana

Johnson, Heather G.S.

Stielau, Allison

Crum, Roger

Judovitz, Dalia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Künstliche Gegenstände
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Embodying Value

Joanna Woodall with Natasha Seaman

Power and Authority in the Mint

1. Weighing Things Up in Maarten de Vos’s Tribunal of the Brabant Mint 1594 (Joanna Woodall)

2. Scaling the World: Allegory of Coinage and Monetary Governance in the Dutch Republic (Sebastian Felten and Jessica Stevenson Stewart)

Currency and the Anxieties of Global Trade

3. Market Stall in Batavia: Money, Value, and Uncertainty in the Age of Global Trade (Angela Ho)

4. Beyond the Mint: Picturing Gold on the Rijksmuseum’s Box of the Dutch West India Company (Carrie Anderson)

Coins and Persons

5. The Heft of Truth: Inwardness and Debased Coinage in Shakespeare’s Plays (Rana Choi)

6. Identity, Agency, Motion: Taylor’s Twelvepence and the Poetry of Commodity (Heather G.S. Johnson)

Coins in and out of Circulation

7. Margarethe Butzbach and the Florin Extorted by Blows: Coins Securing Social Bonds in Fifteenth-Century Germany (Allison Stielau)

8. Centring the Coin in Jacob Backer’s Woman with a Coin (Natasha Seaman)

Credit and Risk

9. Accounting Faith and Seeing ‘Ghost Money’ in Masaccio’s Tribute Money (Roger J. Crum)

10. Monetary Transactions and Pictorial Gambles in Georges de La Tour (Dalia Judovitz)

Afterword

The Work of Art: The Installations of Kelli Rae Adams (Natasha Seaman)

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ho, Angela
Angela Ho is Associate Professor at George Mason University and the author of Creating Distinctions in Dutch Genre Painting: Repetition and Invention (2017). Her current research focuses on the economic and artistic exchanges between the Dutch East India Company and various Chinese groups in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Choi, Rana
Rana Choi is currently working on turning her dissertation, Erich Auerbach and His Interlocutors: A Comparison of Literary Critical Methodologies, into a book, as well as a second book that is an application of these methodological insights in Shakespearean Figurations.

Crum, Roger
Roger J. Crum is Professor of Art History at the University of Dayton. Formerly President of the Italian Art Society and a Board member of the College Art Association, Crum has been a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study and a Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti.

Stielau, Allison
Allison Stielau is Lecturer in Early Modern Art at University College London. Her research focuses on object cultures in early modern northern Europe.

Johnson, Heather G.S.
Heather Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and teaches early modern literature, literary theory, and writing pedagogy and practice. Her research interests include early modern religious and political writing, early modern women writers, affect theory, and pedagogy.

Stewart, Jessica
Jessica Stewart (PhD, UC Berkeley) works on the history of collecting and the intellectual cultures of reception. Her research focuses primarily on the visual cultures of international trade in the early modern world. She serves as the Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships at UC Berkeley.

Anderson, Carrie
Carrie Anderson is an Associate Professor of Art History at Middlebury College in Vermont. Her primary area of research is the art of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, within which she focuses on themes related to intra- and intercultural diplomacy and gift exchange.

Felten, Sebastian
Sebastian Felten (PhD, King’s College London) is a historian of finance, science, and bureaucracy in early modern Europe. His current focus is on money as a social technology and knowledge work in early modern mining.

Woodall, Joanna
Joanna Woodall is Professor of Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art. She specialises in Netherlandish visual culture during the age of global expansion. Her recent publications have focused on love and money, and sometimes the exchange between the two.

Seaman, Natasha
Natasha Seaman is Professor of Art History at Rhode Island College. She is the author of Hendrick ter Brugghen and the Theology of the Image. Reinventing Painting after the Reformation in Utrecht (Ashgate 2012) and several articles relating to the work of the Utrecht Caravaggisti.

Judovitz, Dalia
Dalia Judovitz is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor Emerita of French at Emory University.Her particular interests are subjectivity, representation, and art in the early modern period, and modern aesthetics. The most recent of her six books is Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible (2018).