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Article: The Art Market and Collecting
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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THE ART MARKET AND COLLECTING
The art market and art collecting, while distinct phenomena, are closely interlinked in the early modern period. The fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries witnessed the creation of a number of social institutions related to both, including the professionalization of art critics and art dealers, an international art market, large-scale private collections, and the first institutional museums.
THE ART MARKET
The art market, as distinct from art patronage, involves the sale (or resale) and distribution of works of art
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including but not limited to antiquities, paintings, sculpture, tapestries, works on paper, ceramics, and metalwork
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