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By the end of the eighteenth century, the arts had been surveyed by an unprecedented series of major works on literature, music, and painting of which the autho

"The Art Through the Century series introduces readers to important visual vocabulary of Western art."--Back cover.

Recent interest in the economic aspects of the history of art have taken traditional studies into new areas of enquiry. Going well beyond provenances or prices

The book opens by examining the attempts by artists in the early eighteenth century to represent commercial prosperity as a source of moral as well as material