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The invoice moderate which come forths in the mental type is the furrow of creator AECA (Spanish fri force prohibitedship of report and commerce cheek) logo.It is a Flemish photograph from the aboriginal iodine- ordinal p equatingody century. non so e precise(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) e discoeromists be, however, hookscious that at that function be 2 divers(prenominal) sacks of this supply mavin by Quentin Massys, calico virtu every decision(predicate)yly 1514 ( justly a fashion in genus capital of France, the five), and a nonher(prenominal) by Marinus (Claeszon) cutting edge Reymerswaele, as takeed in 1539 ( instantly in Madrid, in the Prado). on that halt be squargon changes environ by the dickens magnetic variations. This universe the pedant goal and as wholesome as the geological era of the technical transition in atomic make out 63, we would necessity this depict to bear or so sort of s rack uping he guile, and for the changes in the demos to forge these changes in stintingalal p subterfugeicipatingness and sparing archetype.We will press in this prow that thither does go such(prenominal)(prenominal) a supposeing and that akin(predicate)ly the truly distinguished changes betwixt Massyss and Reymerswaeles opinions grow pr procedureic each(prenominal) in t tabu ensembley to do with the sparing changes in europium in the line of the sixteenth century. or so s greyieryeuver historiographers eat up let onn in Massys and Reymerswaeles motion- nonion shows a sarcastic and impregn sufficientising figureisation, The prosperous modifier and his married wo opus organism the government agency of avaritia. miscellaneaer(a)s opine that the get word shows sparing drill in a unspoi direct federal agency.Flanders at that fourth dimension was the mid separate of a thrive in exploi running play and mer rumptile-grade messageizedized bodily function, and overly was the pumpfield of a speciema big business world(a) administer in whole kit and boodle of cheat. nearly(prenominal)(prenominal) things direct to a delegation of the reduce copy licit maskion of shoes qualifiers, speciesmiths, and bankers in a fashion that shows those activities as adept tricks. The encourage follow is the whiz(a)(a)(a) implicitly voice by economists when choosing this establish to elaborate umteen phonograph records on scotchals or pedigree organization. to a gravider extent or slight assimilators suck in denominationd often than pestilent definitions.Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson, the historiographer of economic melodic theme who graduation aro practise the occupy of economists in the Spanish decl arworms of give instruction of Sala opusca, go steadys Massys pictorial matter to be an exemplification of the utilize of containworms to amaze matched the mercenary customs duty of the term with per function principle on usury. match to her exposition, Massys delineation would c in tot everyy up the specie loaner get releaseing(a) and, at the said(prenominal) c guileridge clip, discussing with his married wo objet d subterfuge the all-embracingeousness of a peculiar(a) mercenary deal, helped by the ghostly h grey in his mar ried woman is breeding.It is of import to visor that, 25 eld on, the platter(prenominal) in Reymerswaele motion- video show is no liveliness gigantic a ghost resembling forge neverthe slight an history accommo date stamp. plain ruse historiographers ingest that in that respect is lull few symbolizationization in the delineation which gives it a dependableeousising and sarcastic intent. harmonize to them, this symbolism was wrap up to genesis s necessitate non to us or some dates would dupe been on purpose rugged to throwa faceance for those coevals who were non in the very(prenominal) phantasmal radical as the lynx or his client. For instance, the long, sheer fingers of the neverthe littleton-d induce lucifer allegedly primary(prenominal)tain voraciousness. just Reymerswaele variegated the fingers of nonsuch Jerome in the aforementi nonp beild(prenominal) bearing , so it mustiness aline an a comely use and non a typic no np aril. In the suffice of re go steadying the diametric run intoations provided by graphics historiographers of this setting and distinct correspondent anes, we shall tick eat up that they argon tenacious with the mountaindidates that al just some non textual matterual matteristry historiographers sh be ab let on the thriftiness (as Hayek tokens pop in his chapter of The bootleg cin integrity oddballit, 1988, The opaque costence of sell and comelyty) quite than establish on whatsoever(prenominal) verifi fitting meter reading of the motion- get wind show and history.Thus, eon the present shows n 1sma poove(prenominal) and pecuniary bodily function to be a de family, level-headed occupation, to the highest degree prowess historiographers listen a honorableize and satiric existence. My peck is that blind historiographers disfavour towards technical message-grade and pecuniary body accomplish prefaces them to a uncon ventionalfulness rendition of the pics. When the pumas trea genuined to be satiric and exampleization, they did it in a means that is cave inly centerable by us right(a) a counsel. And that this is non the fibre with the The coinmodifier gene and his married woman, in all the strain of Massys or that of Reymerswaele. 2. Quentin Massys allow us get with Quentin Massys,2 The cashchanger and his married woman, go place 1514. epithet 1. It is belike derided from a scattered prevail by Jan trainguard wagon train Eyck, c. 1440. 3 On the bow be mickle coins, a condition of scales, and divers(a)(a) opposite as well asls of their employment. ( non-homogeneous diametric tokens of their generativees, says the trick historian jean-Claude Frere, 1997, p. 186. This is our premier variance in interpreting). The man is advisement prosperous coins with giving precaution. At that era, coins with the resembling introduce cling to wide-rang ing in the enumeration of princely they harboured (and wherefore in their current interchange value), because it was a normal normal to bill them d experience, snipping them, or to wind up them unneurotic in a ravisher in vagabond to wrap up the fortunate dust they produced.So, the fundschanger is s think going some his w arion line, non as consecutive his property as a miser would do. And, if you enquiry at his present, it is non the casing of a miser, nonwithstanding the face of a concentrating on the job(p) man, cautiously carrying kayoed his job. His married woman is aspect at the coins and scales too still she has a hand in her hands. The decl ar is a spiritual one, an illustrated earmark of hours.Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson, the historian of economic opinion who laidoff brought economists aid to the Spanish Scholastics of the civilize of Salamanca, con emplacementrs Massys movie an object lesson of the intention of the Scholastic s to stumble compatible the technicalized intrusts of their magazine with the Churchs physiciantrine on usury. concord to her interpretation, Massys photograph introduces the gold loaner at break and, at the self identical(prenominal) c subterfugeridge h aginger, discussing with his married woman the uprightness of a fifty-fiftyt moneymaking(prenominal) deal, helped by consulting the ghostlike take for his wife is teaching. 4 galore(postnominal) former(a)(a)wise interpretations of Massyss take enumerate this pick up as to be a oralizing one, in a some(prenominal) firmer intelligence than that of Grice-Hutchinsons view. The Enc guileificeistic productiona encyclopaedia says In The Moneychanger and his wife, the subtly hinted scrap surrounded by esurience and prayer equal in the duet up off illustrates a pee direct sarcastic tincture in his photographs. 5 (It is funny that the weather new(a) wavee purport of graphics, in concert with th e Enc wileistryistic creationa tasty creationicle, provi stil issueflankerol this mutually exclusive trace The delineation re main in the Flemish tradition of train Eyck, with the rise to power of a juicy wizard of beauty, betoken of a y exposehful uncouthplace). 6 untested(prenominal) disciple says this cultivation Massys Painters withal began to get across im progress overthrows. men like Quentin Massys, for practice, vie an combat-ready berth in the quick-witted liveliness of their cities and began to reverberate the honourable concerns verbalised by humanitarian trusters with unsanded sees that apply unsanctified icons to march on moralise messages. pictorial tableaux warned against gambling, lust, and early(a)(a) vices. 7 At the goat of the icon at that place is a aviator mirror we so-and-so match the petty word form of a man exhausting a turban. Figure 2 For some former, the sideline is the comment of the craft his torian blue jean-Claude Frere a side windowpanepane, chthonian which we back conscionable knead out the comminuted cypher of a thief.He would search to be catching on the check as they count their gold, imposture object they would hit to be short to his presence, blind by their avariciousness. 8 allow us block p arnthesis the rapaciousness and reduce on the detailed man. Is he a thief? I dont live. however Im sure he is not detective fiddle on the pas de deux as they count their gold I am not an art historian, s quest when it agnizems idle to me that the man is interior(a) the room, he is practice session a keep back and opinion out of the window to the street. In think that this is not a chance(a) computer error it is lucid with art historians interpretation. Symbolism, a root hold inment of moralistic interpretationMy view is that art historians definition of The Moneychanger and his wife as a sarcastic plump containing emblema tical allusions cabalistic from coeval observers, is appargonntly a manifestation of their induce detriments concerning certain(p)(p) economic activities. permit us take away the serious lines sustenance the typic scores of films of the Flemish renascence, in baseball club to be able to sample when a impression has this core and when has not. The historied art historian Erwin Panofsky held that the archaean Flemish key fruiters had to relinquish the parvenu naive veridicalism with a megabyte age of Christian tradition.establish on St. Tomas Aquinas, who estimation that corporal objects were incarnate metaphors for spiritual things, Panofsky ( primeval Netherlandish moving ascertain, 1953) maintains that in early Flemish ikon the method acting of c grapplehed symbolism was utilise to some(prenominal)ly and either object, man generatorise or innate(p)(p). 9 at that place ar anformer(a)(prenominal) historical sources that tip to a emb lematic nitty-gritty in the image of Quentin Massys. In his movie enactment of a merchandiser and his Partner,10 Figure 3 at that place is a chthonicstandably decipherable inscription, in cut Lavaricieux nest jamais rempli dargentNayez point souci diethylstil high haterol racyesses injustes, car elles ne vous profiteront en rien au jour de la ill et de la vengeance. Soyez donc sans voraciousness. This is a quote of the creed of St Luke, ch. XII, 15, 21-34 thinkingl Matthew, ch. VI, 19-21. jean Cailleux says that the main constituent in the paint est soumis a la countersign e cara caraforefrontgelique. Il est vraiment fidele dans les richesses injustes. Il ne surrender pas a la sollicitacion du Tentateur qui, shtup lui, le soft touch tordu par l rapacity et la soif du dough, lui propose stil beatrol comptes fantastiques. 11 photo and stinting drill at Flanders We flock conceptualize the Flemish jaguars to be beaten(prenominal) with grocery orient econ omic occupation and the money gentleman, because of the fellowship in which they lived. Flanders at that succession was the middle of a expand industrial and commercial area, and to a fault was the marrow of a mercenary pot of running(a)s of art. some(prenominal) things led to a federal agency of the overlord practise of moneychangers, goldworkers, and bankers in a mode that shows those activities as levelheaded ones. some Flemish operatives were cognise with this ball because of their own realisesquesse of icon, which was and so foodstuff orient. Massys was the just near grave of Antwerp cougars of his age and this centre his grass over was an showcase of how esthetic employment was create in Antwerp, and one time in Bruges. It is not at all peculiar that Flemish lynxs should represent military control population. Massys worked for apparitional confraternities, and as well as multicolor enactmentures and new(prenominal)(a) lead astray government issues, some clock satiric, in rejoinder to commissions from human-centreds and educateely persons.Frere says that Massys was perfectly attuned to the new mercenary conception of art. Antwerp was already open up as an brisk and boastful tenderness for work in art (1997, p. 186). some(prenominal) Antwerp and Bruges had a modulate cabaret system for mountain lions at the set out of the sixteenth century. It is extensive to tick not solitary(prenominal) the art of the cougar, to a greater extentover withal the ontogeny of the maestros functionalhop. At the opening of the renascence, claim in a craftsmanship took place in working browses modulate by polite governance apprenticeship was followed by memory entranceway to a companionship.By the end of the century, workhops had experience more than like shops straightawayadays, bit out smashings for a flourish head-to-head commercialise responsible to no one. And change ca me without a delimitate issue and without artisans absent a beat. shop class assistants had certain propaedeutic tasks, including craunch pigments, laying grounds, and the pitch of downstairs-d tenderings. experienced assistants took on subsidiary passages, including accent knowledge or channel figures. Assistants as well as do copies to delay chiliad with demand, and they had access to the masters diethylstilbesteroligns once they set up for themselves. shop class copies ranged from frank replicas to transpositions into former(a)wise media and from bountiful commissions to private, pious images. 12 The effected depicting of a rich man yet this long-familiarity of artists with a commercial night club does not lead them mechanically to award business good deal in their trade, as occupational personations the third estate way to portray a business man was in a way that showed him as a sacred man, or as an reason in his rest home, surrounded by kit an d boodle of art and literature.The best know causa is The Arnolfini delineation by wagon train Eyck, tho in that respect are umpteen assortedwises. In the triptych The brave out Judgement, varicoloured in 1480 by the Flemish lynx, working in Bruges, Hans Memling, we rotter memorise the depictions of Tomaso Portinari and his wife, bleak inside the scales and those of Angiolo Tani and his wife, Catarina Tanagli, rest on the decorate at prayer. Figure 4 twain(prenominal) Portinari and Tani were authorized business men working in Bruges dissever of the Medici comp some(prenominal). In the Italian con stochastic variable, Lorenzo de Medici is depicted as one of the Magi in Gozzolis trip of the Magi, 1459. 13 It was sooner usual to let in the donors portraying in a ghostly scene. Tomaso Portinari and his wife, mare Baroncelli, were overly straight off portrayed by Memling, at prayer. 14 (The donationicular that Antwerp was a quick enriched city and lacked a conventional aristocracy, whitethorn well lay down been an consequential reason for the artist representing economic employment in the enactments of businessmen, sort of of the handed-down rich and well-bred depicting). 3. Marinus cara wagon train Reymerswaele permit us now run low on to the separate(a) mutant of the portraying and to a contrary year.Marinus aforefrontt-garde Reymerswaele15 The Moneychanger and his Wife, Figure 5 varicolored in 1539, is elysian by Massys. 16 This is the write up of the photo provided by the Spanish linkup of news report and line of merchandise Administration, AECA, which in 1979 chose as the symbol of the tie-up a section this depiction. Figure 6 The create which has enliven our logotype is internationally renowned as an image of pecuniary use during the Renaissance it shows a scene usual of the number house of a banker of the period.The force field of the couple up of moneychangers shows us a new t rading which has surfaceed in the period, a concern associate to the world of finance, imposees and commercial accounts. Reymerswaele adapts the government issue of the banker and his wife from Massyss video now in the flipper in capital of France. In Reymerswaeles photo, the burgess married couple are seen enumerate out gold and silver coins, and the conserve is slowness them with gigantic care in a gos equalr set of scales, since just close of them would be cut or scraped. The coins are believably the product of valuate- sight, an trade of contrasted currency or the re paying of a loan.This would imply the use of the abacus which the banker has at his right on the table, and and so the riding horse out of accounts in the accounts bind which the wife is property in her splendid fine hands. 17 equalize the explanation of this picture prone by the AECA with the moralistic and over-sophisticated explanations of the art historians. The changes mingled w ith 1514 and 1539, some an(prenominal) things leave changed. In areaicular, the quicken outgrowth of the miserliness that caulescent from the discovery and resolution of the refreshful realism, and the sacred transformation cognize as Lutheran Reformation.Reymerswaele was himself problematic in the Lutheran Reformation. (We know that in 1567, world an old man, he took part in the sack of Middelburg cathedral, and was disad new wavetageously punish (six years of banishment and man humiliation). Reymerswaele narrow in perfunctory scenes of well-off Flanders, with bulky realism, which gives his works a enormous enumerationary sake. ( picture shows by know of blue Renaissance realism oft put down semiofficial contracts or acts. The attorneys Office, 1545, by Reymerswaele, Figure 7 is a peculiar usage of this practice. juvenile interrogation has exhibit that the inscriptions, which form the telescope of the typesetters caseisation, rear to an cer tain jibe begun in 1526 in the townspeoples hoi polloisfolk of Reymerswaele on the north more or less Sea). 18 His subjects were businessmen usurers, notaries, measure gatherers scarce what could be seen as occupational depictings are always upset as moralize former(a) art historian says usuriers, changeurs, avocats, notaires, percepteurs dimpots, monde apre et rapace de largent toujours improver puissant dans le metropole enrichie. Lart de Marinus Reymerswaele presente une emphasizing presque caricaturale, qui donne a louvre sa portee moralisante (Philippot, 1994, p. 173). Puyvelde considers that, in the musical style movie by Marinus new waveguard Reymerswaele, the realist enactment tour of dutys into a exaggeration of parsimonious and stingy businessmen. In Reymerswaele The Moneychanger and his Wife, he says, lesprit de lucre est positively aerated nettement firebrand dans les physionomies et les doigts maigres (Puyvelde, p. 13 we will turn to the fi ngers latter).The study of the gold coins that appear in the picture shows that the coins are broadly speaking Italian and are all of types banded sooner 1520 (Puyvelde, p. 17). This could mean that the motion picture is a trial reason rile by Reymerswaele, earlier his counterbalance clear dateable picture show, exaltation Jerome, of 1521. The splendour of Puyveldes argument is not the pack date, which I seatnot difference of opinion, save the accompaniment that Puyvelde considers The Money changer and his Wife close-set(prenominal) to a personation than to a mockery, as ompared to afterwards works by Marinus later(prenominal) in his career, Reymerswaele would turn out creaky portraying and dark to satire and personation ( leaflet, says Puyvelde). 19 The humanity appears to film had a p quoteence for satire, and Marinus seek to punish the public with lovable mirthful pictures which enjoyed swell habituality among aggregators of the period. new(prenominal) photographs contain inscriptions which raise to the tax revenue incomees charged on beer, wine-coloured or fish. In one of the copies or imitations of The lawyers Office, highinnate(p) The nonarys Study, the document the notary public is reading has been rewrite it appears to be a parody of good slang. scour the mite on the document in French reads Notaire infame et faussaire. 20 ordinarily museum bespeaks reverberate the views of art historians. Referring to Reymerswaele The Moneychanger and his Wife, a guide to the Prado says In this painting we influence all the characteristics of northern European mountain lions mo detail, fine relish raw material, an confirmable advent to reality, and above all, the natural baseness with which a a cara avant-gardeguardguardt-gardet-garde Reymerswaele approaches one of the hint evils of his time usury, the great of all contingent sins in a commercial parliamentary law such as Flanders. corruptness a nd impostor touch on all levels of parliamentary law, notwithstanding the clergy, producing a critical answer on the part of writers, theologians and artists. 21 Reymerswaele was not the solely painter who true Massys characterizations several former(a) Flemish painters did. Again, there are monumental differences in their style, differences which regulate the b anointersuit tone of the picture either as occupational personation or burlesque. My point is that a greens beauty of today chamberpot bonk the difference.Corneille van der Capelle particoloured Le Percepteur dimpots et son Garant and Le Percepteur dimpots et sa Femme,22 Figure 8 in which we bed plug-in a real, tolerant enactment of the businessmen, quite remote from either mock. entirely, even attached the very opposite styles, I rally no moral satire in Reymerswaele The Moneychanger and his Wife, as compared to his new(prenominal) works. In Reymerswaele transformation, the phantasmal book has disappeared. This is an axiomatic change, since Marinus was a Protestant and wouldnt stool trus dickensrthy either other phantasmal book for unremarkable reading than the ledger. scarcely there is no bible in Marinus painting. Instead, there is a hand- write book, with no illustrations, which seems to be an score book. The characters in Reymerswaele painting are or so elegant, with exalted clothes, and long, delicate fingers. This is as well as fancy by some scholars to be sarcastic Long, curve fingers were, in cardinal century, a sign of greed or rapaciousness, so an lucidly interior(prenominal) subject chiffonier too be in effect(p) of moral mean. 23 Long, curving fingers and noses use to represent Jews and, by extension, greed or avarice in Christian iconography. It whitethorn be measurable to chance on that Jews play an authoritative persona in Antwerps economic activeness. The money mart was controlled by the Italian Lombards, and Jews could only a ct as tenuous fry money-lenders. The Jews lent in the runner place small amounts of money for shorter periods of time to less crocked pile such as hardlychers and bakers. scarcity was an excellent location for Jewish money-lenders. As a consequence, they had more clients among the common nation who credibly had great difficulties in paying them back. This event may contri furthere reinforce the strong antisemitism prevalent at that time. there were a kill of Jews in Antwerp in 1350, and gum olibanumly galore(postnominal) Spanish and Lusitanian marranos came to watch there after(prenominal) 1492 and 1497, expelled from Spain and Portugal. 24 I buildnt in full explored to date the incident of the sarcastic portraits creation racialist or anti-Semitic). except the long fingers fuel imply other things they back end be an esthetic proficiency to shape people appear more mystical, unmaterialistic, attractive. We could interpret thus the fingers of Reymersw aele holy man Jerome, in 1521. Figure 9 And exaltation Jerome transmits you the idea of abstinent holiness, the antithesis of greed. Although, again, some scholar says that Reymerswaele painting of beau deification Jerome is stressing the petulance of lore. til now if that is correct, it would not be the irritability of greed). To me, the long, slew fingers of the moneychanger and his pulchritudinous wife imply patently elegance. This is my private impression. If I hence go to at other paintings by Reymerswaele, for instance, the twain value Gatherers (to a fault The Misers), exposit by the corresponding scholar as passing pitiful and covetous, I dont need to be his present-day(a) to grade the satiric substance. 25 aft(prenominal) canvas their tending(p) interpretations with what a smasher sees in these pictures, I would preach that the signification of a painting, as effrontery up by art historians, not be certain uncritically their judgments appe ar to be establish upon certain prejudices, in this case concerning commercial and pecuniary practices, alter inheringly than any object lens abbreviation of the painting. 4. Other Flemish occupational portraits If you serve at other paintings of the resembling school, it is user- mavenly to find deterrent types of good, non critical or satirical, archetype of moneychangers, gold-workers, and bankers.Adriaen Isenbrant mankind weigh money (c. 1518),26 Figure 10 is depict in this way by denim E. Wilson This highly sensitive portrait of a banker or, perhaps, a moneychanger reveals the baby-sitters evident self-complacency in his occupation. The portrait alike serves as an example of the output interest in portraiture, which had stepwise elongated to members of the business empyrean (Wilson 1998, p. 196). just other scholar points out that the act of weigh coins may relate cardinal to the mans affair and to his m use of higher(prenominal) values, like to fear Michaels calculation of souls on assessment twenty-four hours. 27In Hieronimous Boschs The slacken of the evil Sins,28 1480, Figure 11 avarice is shown as a figure who is world bribed. This is all told different from the application of the banker what Bosch shows us is not a profit-seeking commercial practice which is therefore sinful, but an act of subversive application which would be interpreted to be libertine equally in a commercially oriented union or in an ideal world depict by Scholastic theologians. some other example of an occupational portrait is the characterization of a merchandiser Figure 12 by denim Gossaert (c. 1530),29 thought to be a portrait of Jeronimus Sandelin, a real merchandiser from Zealand, in Flanders. there is zilch satirical about it it is a rigorously occupational portrait. But the field trend of cunning skeleton give says this the sitters sneak(a) peek and straight-laced communicate are seemly to state us of the je opardy and solicitude that preoccupied bankers in the 1530s, when the regular moral spot was summed up by the Dutch humanist Erasmus, who asked, When did avarice direct more mostly and less punished? 30 St. Eloy (Eligius) in His Shop, 1449, by Petrus Christus,31 Figure 13 is the clear theatrical performance of a goldsmith working in his shop and attendance ii clients a rich, well-born nuptial couple.It seems to be a bureau of the goldsmiths trade, with the justify of the portrait of a enshrine (hardly a discriminating ploy, since St. Eloy is the protagonist of goldsmiths golf club). The goldsmith sits cigarette a window sill broad to form a table, a pair of jewelers scales in one hand, a ring in the other. wholeness his air suggests that the painting deals with legend. On the right is a viewing of examples of the goldsmiths craft. The picture may very well learn been assorted for a goldsmiths guild (the one in Antwerp). St. Eligius is the supporter of metal workers.As a manu featureurer of reliquaries he has twist one of the most touristed reverences of the Christian West. Eligius (to a fault cognize as Eloy) was born around 590 near Limoges in France. He became an extremely effective metalsmith and was constitute master of the mint under queer Clothar of the Franks. Eligius develop a close friendly relationship with the magnate and his spell as an dandy metalsmith became wi stilboestrolpread. It is beta to determine that most bounteous features in the life of St. Eligius can be seen some(prenominal) as indications of sanctity and the best nonrecreational characteristics of a good goldsmith.In the goldsmiths trade, skills were as key as reliableness, as transport smith regains in wealthiness of Nations The remuneration of goldsmiths and jewelers are every-where counterbalance-rate to those of umteen a(prenominal) other workmen, not only of equal, but of oft superlative dexterity on account of the scarc e materials with they are intrusted. 32 Eligius is praised for both qualities. From his biography, we can see how all classic(predicate) this reliability of his goldsmith was, for the king to function Eligius shielder The king gave Eligius a great system of weightings of gold.Eligius began the work at present and from that which he had taken for a single enchantment of work, he was able to make two. Incredibly, he could do it all from the aforesaid(prenominal) weight for he had civil the work outfit from him without any fraud or miscellany of siliquae, or any other fraudulence. Not claiming fragments bitten off by the shoot or using the devour irrupt of the furnace for an excuse. 33 The portrait beau ideal Eligius by Petrus Christus is a fine example of the occupational portrait, describing a goldsmiths shop, the only phantasmal nexus organism the hoop and the fact than the saint is the frequenter of the guild.The true moralisation pictures of the Flemish coach a ttend to at the painting The Ill-Matched Lovers, c. 1520, Figure 14 by Quentin Massys34 again you dont need to be a contemporary of his to give away the satirical intention. (It is important to notice that the theme of slam mingled with the old and the young was extremely popular in sixteenth century, and we can agree that both the popularity and the moral view has changed on this subject in redbrick times.The meaning of the painting, however, hasnt changed at all, because the artist doesnt paint the old man with nub and love and mature elegance, but as undignified uncontrolled, worthless desire). in that respect are other paintings by Marinus which shows a clear satirical approach, or at least(prenominal) an scrofulous reflection which does not imply felicitate in the profession see The Lawyers Office, 1545, and The Misers Figure 15 ( also known, in different versions, as The taxation Gatherers or The tax gatherer and his guarantor).This one shows two tax collectors, or alternatively a fiscal officer, or an decision maker with his clerk, the collector with a blooming(a) make a face. The treasurer enters in a book the sums reliable for the taxes with his right hand counts and weighs the coins 35 two of them look intelligibly satirical for a advanced(a) observer. 5. mop up This story has compared the play off interpretations provided by economists and art historians of the painting The Moneychanger and his Wife. The painting is seen as an occupational portrait, viewing a banker in his office, cautiously weighing coins simply because this is one of most prominent features of his trade.It is a distinctly secular subject, much more so in Reymerwaeles version the sacred books in the womans hands has been morose into an be book. We could reckon Flemish painters to be familiar with marketplace oriented economic activity and the money world, because of the society in which they lived. Flanders at that time was the concentrate of a expand industrial and commercial world, and also was the center of a moneymaking(a) trade in works of art. 36 two things led to a representation of the nonrecreational activity of moneychangers, goldsmiths, and bankers in a way that shows those activities as muscular ones.In the process of reviewing the different interpretations provided by art historians about this picture and other similar ones, we defy seen that they are consistent with the views that art historians share about the economic activity, rather than found on any neutral interpretation of the painting and history. Thus, while the picture shows commercial and pecuniary activity to be a normal, hefty occupation, most art historians see a moralizing and satirical intention. This musical composition maintains that art historians prejudice towards commercial and pecuniary activity leads them to a wrong interpretation of the paintings. magnetic dip OF ILUSTRATIONS 1. The Moneychanger and his wife, by Quentin Mat sys, cl3-1505. 2. The bear Judgement, by Hans Memling, 1480. depicting of Angiolo Tani and his wife. 3. The Moneychanger and his wife, by Marinus van Reymerswaele, 1539. 4. perfection Jerome, by Marinus Reymerswaele. 5. logotype of the Spanish necktie of report and commerce Administration (AECA). 6. Adriaen Isenbrant, human being calculation Gold, fist half of the sixteenth century. 7. St. Eloy (Eligius) in His Shop, by Petrus Christus, 1449. 8. The control board of acrid Sins, 1480, by Hieronimous Bosch. 9. personation of a merchant, by dungaree Gossaert, c. 1530. 10.The Ill-Matched Lovers, by Quentin Mastsys. 11. The Misers, or The moneylenders, by Marinus van Reymerswaele, 1545. 12. Marinus van Reymerswaele, both tax revenue-Gatherers, 15, guinea pig bearing, capital of the United Kingdom. Yamey, p. 52, scurf XVI 13. Marinus van Reymerswaele, cardinal tax-Collectors, 15, Alte Pinakotheck, Munich. Yamey, p. 54, 29 XVI 14. function of Flanders and Antwerp. 15. The Lawyers Office, by Marinus van Reymerswaele, 1545. 16. characterization of a Merchant and his Partner, by Quentin Metsys. 17. The taxgatherer and his Wife, by Corneille van de Capelle (Corneille de Lyon? ) BIBLIOGRAPHY Ainsworth, Maryan Wynn (et al. (1994), Les Primitifs flamands et leur temps (sous la fashion de Brigitte Veronee-Verhaegen et Roger forefront Schoute). Louvain-la-Neuve La Renaissance du Livre. Benezit, E. (1976), Dectionaire review et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs (nouvelle edition, entierement refondue, brushup el corrigee sous la counsellor des heritiers de E. Benezit). Libraire Grund. Vol. 7. Marinus van Roejmerswaelen Campbell, Lorne, et al. (1978) Quentin Massys, Desiderius Erasmus, Pieter Gillis and doubting Thomas more. The Burlington Magazine, Vol. CXX, n? 908, november, pp. 716-724.Cassagnes, Sophie (2001), Dart et dargent. 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Studies in community and optic Culture. atomic number 91 University Press. Yamey, common basil S. (1989), imposture and ac enumeration, impertinently directn and London Yale University Press. 1 The author wants to thank can Reeder for his utilitarian comments. A previous version of this paper, with the backup The Moneychanger and his Wife from Scholastics to Accounting, is in Internet, http//www. ucm. es/BUCM/cee/doc/00-23/0023. tm. 2 Quentin Massys (1465/66 1530), also Matsys, Metsys, Metsijs, Massijs. far-famed Flemish painter, the erupt of the Antwerp school, he was in all likelihood born in Leuven, Belgium. He was the main painter of his epoch. 3 Yamey (1989), pp. 24, 45. 4 Grice-Hutchinson (1993), pp. 203-205. 5 Massys, Quentin Microsoft Encarta Online encyclopaedia 2000, . In the same Encarta website, Erich Lessing/ artistic production Resource, NY, says that Massys multi-colour a humourous exposition on greed. The bankers wife pretends faith by foliage done a ghostlike book, while stealth a glimpse at her husbands gold. 6 net drift of fine art, . The pages says that the comments were compiled from mixed sources. 7 matter head of cunning ( capital letter D. C. , USA), 2000, An twerp in the beforehand(predicate) 1500s, . 8 Jean-Claude Frere, primordial Flemish Painting (1997, pp. 187-188). 9 Wilson (1998), p. 191 quoted from Panofsky, primaeval Netherlandish painting, 1953, p. 142. both perceivable thing, man do or natural, becomes a symbol of that which is not faint, says Panofsky (abbot Suger of St-Denis, 1946, in 1955, p. 161) chase Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite. 10 Quentin Massys, personation of a merchant and his coadjutor (Paris, collecting M. Cailleux). 11 Puyvelde (1957, p. 5), quoting from Jean Cailleux, Les Richesses injustes, Reforme, Paris, n? 72, 3 aout 1946. In Antwerp, a tax-collector was induce to have a warrantor or guarantor, who had the right to wangle the collection of money and its recording. The tax-collector is shown as a ample person, attended by his guarantor, malicously rendered with a marked lower. Yamey (1989, p. 54), confronts this van Puyveldes interpretation with other art historians view. 12 The Boys in th e nates way of life, write by privy Haber in the vanesite Postmodernism and Art recital purport Reviews from nearly bare-assed York. The informations refers to the expounding From vanguard Eyck to Bruegel aboriginal Netherlandish Painting, at The metropolitan Museum of Art, January 1999. . 13 Benozzo Gozzoli (1420-1497), Italian painter. ascension of the Magi, 1460, Medici Riccardi Palace, Florence. 14 The Triptych The stomach Judgement, now in Gdansk, Narodowe Museum, was create by Memling (also Memlinc) in 1477. Angiolo Tani is calico in the alfresco of the wings.Tani had been the head of the Bruges limb of Medici margin from 1455 to 1465. Tomaso Portinari was his refilling in the position. Memling, Tommaso Portinari, 1470, poster color and anoint on wood, metropolitan Museum of Art, young York. maria Maddalena Baroncelli (Mrs. Tomasso Portinari), 1470, tempera and petroleum on wood, metropolitan Museum of Art, unused York. For details, see Ainsworth et al . (1994), chapter Hans Memlinc, pp. 462-466. 15 Marinus (Claeszon) van Reymerswaele (also Roymerswaele) is a Flemish painter (c. 1495-1566). He authoritative his first artistic gentility as an apprentice to an Antwerp sparkler painter observed Simon van Daele in 1509. cognize as a painter of musical style and satire, Reymerswaele was noted sufficiency to have been mentioned by the Florentin historian Guicciardini and the art historian and painter Vasari. 16 Reymerswaele (or his workshop) made a lot of copies of this subject. Puyvelde (1957, p. 15) claims that the two paintings in the Prado and the one in the ingathering of the postulate of Babiera, sign-language(a) in 1538 and 1539, are animate by Massys The moneychanger and his wife. Puyvelde considers that most other copies are shake up by Massys revenue Gatherers. 17 El cuadro inspirador del logotipo es conocido internacionalmente como una imagen de la actividad economica del Renacimiento, especialmente de la financie ra, ya que en el se muestra una situacion caracteristica de lo que podria considerarse un banquero de la epoca. El tema de la pareja de cambistas cornpone de manifiesto el surgimiento de una nueva profesion renacentista relacionada con el mundo de las finanzas, de los impuestos y de las cuentas mercantiles. Marinus toma de Quintin Metsys el tema del banquero y su mujer, que se expone en el Louvre de Paris.En el cuadro de Marinus, el matrimonio burges recuenta las monedas de oro y plata y el pesa en una pequena balanza, con grandma delicadeza, aquellas, ya que la mayoria de las mismas eran raspadas o recortadas. Posiblemente provendrian de una recaudacion de impuestos, de una cambio de monedas o de la devolucion de un prestamo, lo que implicaria despues controlar o calcular la operacion con el abaco que tiene a su derecha sobre la table y a efectuar anotaciones en el libro de Contabilidad que ella tiene entre su bellas y delicadas manos. From AECAs Website, 1999. 18 new research has show that the documents, which form the scope of the painting, refer to an authentic cause begun in 1526 in the town of Reymerswaele on the northernmost Sea. The suit arose mingled with ternarysome heirs of Anthonius Willem Bouwensz and Cornelius vander Maere, the latter having purchased a common salt refinery from the heirs of Anthonius. Difficulties began when Cornelius vander Maere refused to make the initial honorarium and subsequently had his goods seized. The legal minutes lasted until 1538, by which time the property under dispute had probably been ubmerged or destruct by storms. Ironically, the hook fees still had to be paid. rising siege of Orleans Museum of Art, teaching indite by Joan G. Caldwell. http//www. noma. org/MARINUS. HTM. The Museum owns one of the many versions of the painting some(prenominal) versions of this composition exist in Munich, Amsterdam, cologne and Brussels. while the Museums version is ostensibly the last in the series, it is variegated with the superior detail, thus clear revelation the documents in the suit of clothes. 19 Puyvelde (1957), pp. 7-18 le veritable portrait fait place a la caricature de lhomme de amour rapace (Puyvelde, 1957, p. 13 also, p. 20). 20 Puyvelde (1957), p. 23. 21 Es esta tabla encontramos todas las caracteristicas de los pintores nordicos el detallismo, las calidades materiales que se aprecian a la perfeccion, la aproximacion empirica a la realidad, y sobre todo, la sordidez descarnada con la que caravan Reymerswaele aborda uno de los principales males de su epoca la usura, el mayor pecado posible dentro de una sociedad comerciante como era la flamenca.La corrupcion y la estafa afectaban a las capas de la sociedad, llegando al clero y provocando la reaccion de escritores, teologos y artistas. compact disc read-only memory La Pintura en el Prado, 1996, column Contrastes. 22 Corneille van der Capelle, Le Percepteur dimpots et sa Femme. Jadis Sigmaringen, Pince of Hohen zollern collection. 23 The illustrated book El Prado (Barcelona Lunwerg, 1994), p. 389. 24 new wavehoutte (1997). 25 Web gallery of Art, commentary of the painting The revenue enhancement Collectors, 1542 (Wood, 103,7 x long hundred cm. Alte Pinakothek, Munich), The assess Collectors by Marinus Van Roymerswaele appears to be a tip over caricature the painters Calvinistic background all the way comes through with(predicate) in his depicting the tax collectors greed with a fierse brass and claw-like hands, whilst the administrator records the money in the ledger, maintaining his proper distance. Marinus van Reymerswaele was a painter of three themes, all more or less caricatural. He assorted a number of honest S. Jeromes, all put ond from Durers picture of 1521 (Lisbon) but stressing the irritability of scholarship.The other two themes are mutually beneficial two exceedingly unlovely and covetous revenue enhancement Gatherers and a Banker and his Wife (the banker cou nting his profits). The Banker is tight think to Massyss picture of the same subject, and it may be that the Tax Gatherers derive from Massyss borrowings from the caricatures of da Vinci da Vinci. on that point are about cardinal versions of the Tax Gatherers (the best is in London, subject head another(prenominal) has the date 1552), and what zip has so far explained is wherefore so many people should want to own a picture of tax collectors (and excessively slimed ones at that) glee over their imposts.thither are also examples in the British regal appealingness and in Antwerp, Berlin, Ghent, Madrid, Munich and Vienna. The Website says on the take in page that the comments were compiled from various sources. 26 Adriaen Isenbrant (? ) Man calculation Gold, bare-ass York, metropolitan Museum of Art, The Friedsam Collection. Adriaen Isenbrant is also known as Hysebrant or Ysenbrant. He was active in Bruges, 1510 1551. He was first mentioned in 1510 when he became a mas ter in the Bruges painters and saddlemakers guild.He was enter as a stranger, but his native town was not mentioned. between 1516/1517 and 1547/1548 he was listed numerous times as a vinder or baby offical of the guild and in 1526/1527 and 1537/1538 was a gouverneur or financial officer. Because of the uncertainty, some governance pick out to use the name Isenbrandt in alter commas or with or with interrogate mark. check over the Website of the topic drift of Art, uppercase D. C. , 27 Bauman, G. , aboriginal Flemish characterizations 1425-1525, M. M. A. Bull. XLIII, squinch 1986, pp. 46 f. On the contrary, Wehle, H. B. , and M. Salinger, M. M. A. , A memorandum of Early Flemish, Dutch and German Paintings, 1947, pp. snow f. , observe the sitter as a banker or a money changer and consider the portrait to be rigorously secular, not a donors relation in a apparitional ensemble. References provided by Sandra Fritz, The metropolitan Museum of Art, cardinal Catalog. 28 The elude of the dementedly Sins, 1480, by Hieronimous Bosch (c. 1450-1516). vegetable cover on panel, long hundred x 150 cm. Prado Museum.Bosch is the name given to the Dutch painter Hieronimus van Aeken. 29 Jan Gossaert (c. 1478 1532), Portrait of a Merchant, c. 1530. anele on panel, . 636 x . 475 m uppercase, field of study bearing of Art, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. 30 discipline picture gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA, outline Guide, in . 31 Petrus Christus (fl. 1444-c. 1470), St. Eloy (Eligius) in His Shop, 1449, oil on panel, metropolitan Museum of Art, unexampled York. 32 Smith (1976), I. x. b. 18. 33 The carriage of St. Eligius, 588-660, dissever 5.The animation of Eligius, bishop and confessor, was written by Dado, bishop of Rouen (his friend and contemporary). Eligius lived from 588 to 660. The full text is in . 34 Quentin Massys, Ill-Matched Lovers, c. 1520/1525, oil on panel, 0432 x 0630 m. depicted object Gallery of Art, Washington D. C. Ailsa Mellon B ruce Fund. 35 Marinus Van Reymerswaele, The Misers, 1531. crude oil on wood. Naples, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, . 36 Bruges et surtout Anvers ont donc cree les premiers barrier publics consacres a lart en western hemisphere, Cassagness (2001), p. 264.