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

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2022

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

Edited by: Natasha Seaman and Joanna Woodall

In the series Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048555789

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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.

Author / Editor information

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.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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Introduction: Embodying Value Joanna Woodall and Natasha Seaman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Power and Authority in the Mint
1. Weighing Things Up in Maarten de Vos’s Tribunal of the Brabant Mint 1594 Joanna Woodall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
2. Scaling the World: Allegory of Coinage and Monetary Governance in the Dutch Republic Sebastian Felten and Jessica Stevenson Stewart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Currency and the Anxieties of Global Trade
3. Market Stall in Batavia: Money, Value, and Uncertainty in the Age of Global Trade Angela Ho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
4. Beyond the Mint: Picturing Gold on the Rijksmuseum’s Box of the Dutch West India Company Carrie Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Coins and Persons
5. The Heft of Truth: Inwardness and Debased Coinage in Shakespeare’s Plays Rana Choi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
6. Identity, Agency, Motion: Taylor’s Twelvepence and the Poetry of Commodity Heather G.S. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
8. Centring the Coin in Jacob Backer’s Woman with a Coin Natasha Seaman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Credit and Risk
9. Accounting Faith and Seeing ‘Ghost Money’ in Masaccio’s Tribute Money Roger J. Crum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
10. Monetary Transactions and Pictorial Gambles in Georges de La Tour Dalia Judovitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Afterword
The Work of Art: The Installations of Kelli Rae Adams Natasha Seaman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 326
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 76
- Coloured Illustrations: 76
Keywords: Coins; art; literature; money; mints

eBook

Published: May 3, 2022
ISBN: 9789048555789