This seminar will begin by exploring recent publications concerning both painting and prints (and occasionally sculptures) from both Germany and the
Netherlands in the 16th-17th centuries.  By including prints as well as sculptures, it will foreground the issues of workshops and publishers as
well as the marketing of art, followed by considerations of the consumption of art, in terms of prices and collecting.  After laying this groundwork,
consideration will be given to the rise of pictorial genres--especially landscape, genre themes (peasants and beggars), and still life within the
consumer setting of art-for-the-market.  A final segment will consider pictures that make themes out of either the market or the picture collection.

Students will produce original research papers based upon the work of a single artist, medium, or pictorial type, but these subjects can come from
different periods closer to the students' own interest.