The Rembrandt Enterprise. Workshop and Market

Outstanding American art historian Svetlana Alpers (born 1936), the daughter of an economist, Nobel laureate Vasily Leontyev, made in this work published in English in 1988, a bold attempt to look at Rembrandt, genius of Dutch painting of the Golden Age, as an artist, as an artist -the entrepreneur who created in the 17th century, when the Republic of United Provinces was not only one of the centers of Western European art, but also the cradle of a market economy, innovative at that time and an amazingly effective model of production and promotion of works of art -in this case, paintings and etchings, which is which which In many ways, it anticipated the strategies of the modern art market. The book of Alpers made a splash in Rembrandtovania and gave impetus to the research of the artist’s practice using tools of social and economic history