Inventories of 17th-century Dutch painters and art dealers: the Künstler-Inventare database ...

Abraham Bredius’ seminal work Künstler-Inventare contains over 150 inventories of artists’ possessions in the Dutch Republic. However, this rich source has never been fully transformed into datasets, partially because Bredius was selective in his transcriptions of artists’ inventories with a focus on paintings. To fill this gap and to overcome Bredius’ biases, the Virtual Interior project assembled and transcribed 46 inventories of artists’ and art dealers’ homes in 17 th -century Amsterdam. The selection of the inventories was based on three criteria: 1) The artists’ and art dealers’ inventor... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Li, Weixuan
Dokumenttyp: dataset
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Verlag/Hrsg.: Zenodo
Schlagwörter: Painters' studios / Inventory / 17th-century / Amsterdam / Art History
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29397383
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7473925

Abraham Bredius’ seminal work Künstler-Inventare contains over 150 inventories of artists’ possessions in the Dutch Republic. However, this rich source has never been fully transformed into datasets, partially because Bredius was selective in his transcriptions of artists’ inventories with a focus on paintings. To fill this gap and to overcome Bredius’ biases, the Virtual Interior project assembled and transcribed 46 inventories of artists’ and art dealers’ homes in 17 th -century Amsterdam. The selection of the inventories was based on three criteria: 1) The artists’ and art dealers’ inventories in my sample were drawn up during an artist’s lifetime or shortly after his death; 2) the inventories listed goods arranged by room; 3) the original documents of the inventories can still be traced in the Amsterdam City Archives. Forty-six inventories were selected and transcribed from the original sources or copied from existing publications. The majority of my samples can be found in the notarial archives (Archive ... : This project is financed by NWO Smart Culture - Big Data / Digital Humanities grant ...