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Forging strategies. Gold and silversmiths in eighteenth-century Ghent between guild and art acade... more Forging strategies. Gold and silversmiths in eighteenth-century Ghent between guild and art academy
Faced by consumers’ new demand for fashionable, quality goods, design skills became increasingly important for manufacturers since the second half of the seventeenth century. Across Europe, art academies and drawing schools were established with the aim of countering a design deficit. This article examines the effect that academy attendance had on a typical, middling, urban group: the gold- and silversmiths of late eighteenth century Ghent. The analysis demonstrates that the legitimation of skills topped the curriculum alongside their production; and that as a result, the eldest sons of masters especially benefited from the academic training.
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The present paper focuses on the institutional context of art production in the Southern Low Coun... more The present paper focuses on the institutional context of art production in the Southern Low Countries during the early modern period. A case study on goldsmiths and silversmiths in the city of Ghent during the second half of the eighteenth century, will constitute the focal point of a study on the relationship between the “traditional” crafts guilds and the “new” academy. In local, as well as in national and international contexts, the relationships between the different craft guilds and the academies were intricate. The different institutions engaged in dialogues as well as in conflicts and determined the state of the art world in the middle, early modern and modern ages. Questions about the foundation, the organization, and the membership of the craft guilds and academies, about rules, regulations, and flexibility, about artistic practices and representation, about continuity and discontinuity, will be examined in the present paper. Not merely art production as such will constitute the central theme of this paper, but principally the institutional context which gave rise to it.
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In recent years, historians and art historians were aware of the possibilities offered by the stu... more In recent years, historians and art historians were aware of the possibilities offered by the study of the social history of the artist. Regarding the Southern Netherlands, this angle was mainly used for the study of the art production in Antwerp. However, Antwerp can be seen as an atypical case, since the number of artists per hundred inhabitants during the early modern period was twice as high compared to other cities in the Southern Netherlands. This paper focuses on the social and economic position of the artists in Ghent in mainly the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Ghent was during that period a typical provincial town with a regional appearance. The city had – especially in comparison with its role during the middle ages – a relative importance. In this way, the Ghent-case forms a good addition to the literature on the major European art production centres. The Ghent guild of Saint Luke was certainly not the most important artist guild of the Southern Netherlands and the guild harboured no top artists among its members. However, on the basis of a prosopographic study of the members of the local guild, it becomes clear how the guild put its marks on the artistic production in a medium-sized city. Aspects such as apprenticeship and master pieces will be discussed and will show that the guild had no ambition to close the doors to the labour market. Furthermore, during the early modern period the idea of corporate fraternity gradually shifted to the background, which provided the guild with a growing influence on the social position of its members.
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Faced by consumers’ new demand for fashionable, quality goods, design skills became increasingly important for manufacturers since the second half of the seventeenth century. Across Europe, art academies and drawing schools were established with the aim of countering a design deficit. This article examines the effect that academy attendance had on a typical, middling, urban group: the gold- and silversmiths of late eighteenth century Ghent. The analysis demonstrates that the legitimation of skills topped the curriculum alongside their production; and that as a result, the eldest sons of masters especially benefited from the academic training.
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Master thesis by Tim De Doncker
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Faced by consumers’ new demand for fashionable, quality goods, design skills became increasingly important for manufacturers since the second half of the seventeenth century. Across Europe, art academies and drawing schools were established with the aim of countering a design deficit. This article examines the effect that academy attendance had on a typical, middling, urban group: the gold- and silversmiths of late eighteenth century Ghent. The analysis demonstrates that the legitimation of skills topped the curriculum alongside their production; and that as a result, the eldest sons of masters especially benefited from the academic training.