TRADE IN ARTISTS MATERIALS - MARKETS AND COMMERCE IN EUROPE TO 1700

This volume due for publication in early 2010 is based on the papers for the international conference ‘European Trade in Painters’ Materials to 1700’, held at the Courtauld Institute and the National Gallery, London, with 8 additional contributions. It addresses questions that sound simple but are notoriously difficult to answer: Where did artists buy their materials? Who prepared them? What did they cost? Where did they come from, and how? The resulting evidence concerning supply and distribution, availability, cost, quality and value of artists’ materials is fundamental for interpreting surviving objects in a wider sense.