A Buyer’s Market
A Buyer’s Market
Map Ownership in Venice and Florence, 1460–1630
Through an analysis of over 3,000 household inventories, this chapter establishes that map ownership was more widespread than historians have previously assumed in Renaissance Venice and Florence. The chapter then explores the tastes of Venetian and Florentine consumers as represented by the types of maps they chose to purchase—the most popular were world maps and landscapes.
Keywords: inventories, map ownership, consumers, Venice, Florence, household, tastes, landscape, world maps
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