Articles

Introduction to the special issue: the economic history of the arts
Karol J Borowiecki

Contracting creativity: patronage and creative freedom in the Italian Renaissance art market
Ennio E Piano; Clara E Piano

Authorship as a determinant of art prices and auction settings in eighteenth-century Paris
Hans J Van Miegroet; Anne-Sophie V Radermecker

The Toulouse salons: a regional counterweight to the Parisian art scene? (1861–1939)
Léa Saint-Raymond

Market structure and creative cluster formation: the origins of urban clusters in German literature, 1700–1932
Lukas Kuld; Sara Mitchell

The German art market during WW II
Jeroen Euwe; Kim Oosterlinck

Historical mobility, creative output, and age of prominent visual artists, composers, and authors
John O'Hagan

Harmonious relations: quality transmission among composers in the very long run
Karol Jan Borowiecki; Nicholas Martin Ford; Maria Marchenko